{"id":41706,"date":"2022-02-14T18:30:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T09:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/14\/myanmar-first-literary-work-since-coup-reveals-courage-and-altruism-of-writers"},"modified":"2022-02-14T18:30:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T09:30:13","slug":"myanmars-first-literary-work-since-coup-reveals-courage-and-altruism-of-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41706","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar\u2019s first literary work since coup reveals \u2018courage and altruism\u2019 of writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picking Off New Shoots Will Not Stop the Spring was born from a desire to preserve online expressions of outrage, grief and dissent, say editors<\/p>\n<p>The first literary work to emerge from Myanmar since the military seized control of the country a year ago reveals the altruism and courage of a new generation of writers, its editor has said.<\/p>\n<p>Picking Off New Shoots Will Not Stop the Spring is an anthology of poems and essays, many of which were written during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/01\/myanmar-coup-a-year-under-military-rule-in-numbers\">military crackdown after last February\u2019s coup<\/a>. Others date from 1988 to 2020.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/14\/myanmar-first-literary-work-since-coup-reveals-courage-and-altruism-of-writers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picking Off New Shoots Will Not Stop the Spring was born from a desire to preserve online expressions of outrage, grief and dissent, say editorsThe first literary work to emerge from Myanmar since the military seized control of the country a year ago r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[511,71,53,82,1906,1397,80,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-culture","category-human-rights","category-myanmar","category-myanmar-coup","category-poetry","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41707,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41706\/revisions\/41707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}