{"id":1191,"date":"2021-08-18T09:48:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T08:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2021-09-24T08:58:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T07:58:48","slug":"soviet-afghanistan-war-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=1191","title":{"rendered":"Soviet Afghanistan War Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;\"><b>On the 12th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, fellow pacifist activist Albert Beale and myself picketed the embassy of the then USSR about the war.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;\"><b>It being just after Gloom Day no one else was willing to join us with the protest.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;\"><b>Of course the embassy was closed that day, but we did manage to hand in a letter of protest.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;\"><b>It might also be added that for several years such protests had taken place in Denmark.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;\"><b>Given the current situation in Afghanistan, I wonder just how much different things would be right now if more activists had taken up the issue at the time.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 12th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, fellow pacifist activist Albert Beale and myself picketed the embassy of the then USSR about the war. It being just after Gloom Day no one else was willing to join us with the protest. Of course the embassy was closed that day, but we did &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=1191\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Soviet Afghanistan War Protest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,22,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/1192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}