{"id":2051,"date":"2009-06-25T10:37:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T17:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/2009\/06\/25\/persepolis-author-marjane-satrapi-appeals-for-iran-help\/"},"modified":"2009-06-25T10:37:54","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T17:37:54","slug":"persepolis-author-marjane-satrapi-appeals-for-iran-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/06\/25\/persepolis-author-marjane-satrapi-appeals-for-iran-help\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Persepolis&#8217; Author Marjane Satrapi Appeals for Iran Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 800px; float: left; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/satrapi.jpg\" width=\"338\" height=\"221\" \/><i>Marjane Satrapi<\/i> is the author of the magnificent graphic novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Persepolis_%28film%29\"><i>Persepolis<\/i><\/a>.&nbsp; She also co-directed the movie adaptation of the book.&nbsp; Her story is about being a young girl growing into womanhood in Iran.&nbsp; She is now appealing for help from the United Nations to protect the people in Iran who are protesting against a brutal totalitarian religious regime for freedom.&nbsp; Here is her note:<br \/><em><br \/>Dear Friends<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>To all who believe in freedom and democracy<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petitiononline.com\/12June\/petition.html\">Please sign this petition to the United Nations<\/a> to stop the violence,<br \/>arrests and torture in Iran.<br \/>The situation is really really bad.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please forward it to whoever you know<br \/>Best and lots of love<br \/><strong>Marjane Satrapi<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marjane Satrapi is the author of the magnificent graphic novel, Persepolis.&nbsp; She also co-directed the movie adaptation of the book.&nbsp; Her story is about being a young girl growing into womanhood in Iran.&nbsp; She is now appealing for help from the United Nations to protect the people in Iran who are protesting against a brutal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[479,512,493,513],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-service","tag-iran","tag-persepolis","tag-protest","tag-satrapi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2054,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}