{"id":603,"date":"2008-09-22T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2008\/09\/22\/asylum-monologues\/"},"modified":"2008-09-22T23:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T23:11:00","slug":"asylum-monologues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"Asylum Monologues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Saint Helens Church this evening we heard personal testimonies of Asylum Seekers in the UK as performed by actors in a very simple and powerful show. It has already been performed in many towns in the UK, and it just needs someebody local to ask and they&#8217;ll do it where you are. See <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090416051724\/http:\/\/www.iceandfire.co.uk:80\/afhr\/index.html\">Actors For Refugees<\/a> for more information.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08092302.jpg\" \/><br \/>These were the actors tonight. They come from a rolling band of willing volunteers, and were presented with a Saint Helens Church mug for their efforts. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">&#8216;This is the thing that the British people don\u2019t understand. They think we came here just because we want to live here. We came here because there are problems \u2013 that why we came here.&#8217; <\/span><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08092301.jpg\" \/><br \/>The local MP, Dr Evan Harris is seen here talking afterwards with Christine Bacon who runs the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Saint Helens Church this evening we heard personal testimonies of Asylum Seekers in the UK as performed by actors in a very simple and powerful show. It has already been performed in many towns in the UK, and it just needs someebody local to ask and they&#8217;ll do it where you are. See Actors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}