{"id":7581,"date":"2018-01-20T13:33:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T21:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=7581"},"modified":"2018-01-20T19:12:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T03:12:02","slug":"ai-weiwei-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/01\/20\/ai-weiwei-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ai Weiwei on Tiananmen and freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AiWeiWei.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7582\" src=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AiWeiWei.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AiWeiWei.jpg 354w, http:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AiWeiWei-106x150.jpg 106w, http:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AiWeiWei-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t act, the danger becomes stronger.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Ai Weiwei<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Journalist:\u00a0 &#8220;Did you follow the events of &#8217;89? [the Tiananmen Square demonstrations from April 15 to June 4, 1989]&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>AW:\u00a0 &#8220;I watched every hour, every second, every minute.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 It was an exciting moment, which encouraged the whole Eastern Europe uprising and the the coming down of the Berlin Wall.\u00a0 It all started from Tiananmen.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Freedom is a pretty strange thing. Once you&#8217;ve experienced it, it remains in your heart and no one can take it away.\u00a0 Then, as an individual, you can be more powerful than a whole country.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Ai Weiwei<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t act, the danger becomes stronger.&#8221; &#8211;Ai Weiwei * * * * * Journalist:\u00a0 &#8220;Did you follow the events of &#8217;89? [the Tiananmen Square demonstrations from April 15 to June 4, 1989]&#8221; AW:\u00a0 &#8220;I watched every hour, every second, every minute.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 It was an exciting moment, which&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/01\/20\/ai-weiwei-quotes\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7581"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7587,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581\/revisions\/7587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}