{"id":11267,"date":"2016-07-16T11:23:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T11:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/?p=11267"},"modified":"2018-05-08T20:48:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T20:48:21","slug":"alumnus-richard-blanco-pens-tribute-to-orlando-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/2016\/07\/16\/alumnus-richard-blanco-pens-tribute-to-orlando-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus Richard Blanco pens tribute to Orlando victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the weeks following the shootings at a gay nightclub in Orlando that killed 49 people,\u00a0the nation has rallied to help families of the victims cope with loss and push for an end to hatred.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.fiu.edu\/\">FIU creative writing <\/a>alumnus Richard Blanco \u201991, MFA \u201997, best known for delivering his poem \u201cOne Today\u201d at President Barack Obama\u2019s second inauguration, penned an emotional response to the devastation titled \u201cOne Pulse\u2014One Poem\u201d for the Miami Herald.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/article85828052.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter size-full wp-image-11271\" src=\"https:\/\/fiualumni-eastus.azurewebsites.net\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/BlancoOrlandoPlay-600x300.jpg\" alt=\"BlancoOrlandoPlay-600x300\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In it, he beckons people to honor Orlando victims by keeping their memories alive, sharing\u00a0fond memories\u00a0and old yearbook photos, and placing \u201ceach memory like a star, the light of their past reaching us now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blanco writes: \u201cUse warm words to describe the cold bodies of our husbands, lovers and wives, our sisters, brothers and friends. Draw a metaphor so we can picture the choir of their invisible spirits rising with the smoke toward disco lights, imagine ourselves dancing with them until the very end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.fiu.edu\/2016\/06\/alumnus-richard-blanco-pens-tribute-to-orlando-victims\/101714\">FIU News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the weeks following the shootings at a gay nightclub in Orlando that killed 49 people,\u00a0the nation has rallied to help families of the victims cope with loss and push for an end to hatred. FIU creative writing alumnus Richard Blanco \u201991, MFA \u201997, best known for delivering his poem \u201cOne Today\u201d at President Barack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":11268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369],"tags":[394,395,381],"class_list":["post-11267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-spotlight","tag-college-of-arts-sciences-education","tag-english","tag-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15076,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11267\/revisions\/15076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}