{"id":92,"date":"2008-05-09T10:56:32","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T15:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/2008\/05\/09\/burmese-images-and-voices\/"},"modified":"2008-05-09T10:56:32","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T15:56:32","slug":"burmese-images-and-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/2008\/05\/09\/burmese-images-and-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"Burmese images and voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/files\/2008\/05\/burmacomic.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"228\" width=\"305\" \/>Sad photos of the post-cyclone devastation in Myanmar, (warning: including dead children), are on this <a href=\"http:\/\/komyo.burmachannel.com\/\">Burmese blog<\/a>\u00a0 (my browser doesn&#8217;t even display the fonts, have no idea what it&#8217;s called) which I found thanks to Ivan Sigal&#8217;s thoughtful <a href=\"http:\/\/ivonotes.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/09\/burma-channel-images-of-nargis\/\">Burning Bridge Blog<\/a>.  Also fascinating that the author ends the series with a cartoon which I was able to identify as\u00a0 Singapore cartoonist Heng Kim Song (translation or publication info welcome). Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalvoicesonline.org\">Global Voices<\/a> provides fascinating insight into what Burmese themselves are saying about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalvoicesonline.org\/2008\/05\/08\/myanmar-slow-relief-work\/\">slow arrival of relief for the survivors<\/a>. One blog says an anonymous government official believes the death toll might be as high as 600,00. Another hopes the government will find a way to accept foreign aid so as not to lose the trust of the people.<\/p>\n<p>Tags:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/burma\">burma<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/blogs\">blogs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/globalvoices\">globalvoices<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad photos of the post-cyclone devastation in Myanmar, (warning: including dead children), are on this Burmese blog\u00a0 (my browser doesn&#8217;t even display the fonts, have no idea what it&#8217;s called) which I found thanks to Ivan Sigal&#8217;s thoughtful Burning Bridge Blog. Also fascinating that the author ends the series with a cartoon which I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1659,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rest-of-the-world-remember-them"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}