{"id":1673,"date":"2013-02-26T10:30:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T02:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2013-02-25T20:20:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T12:20:01","slug":"petition-to-macalester-college-in-support-of-wang-ping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1673","title":{"rendered":"Petition to Macalester College in Support of Wang Ping"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following last week’s post on Wang Ping’s grievance against Macalester College<\/a>, here is a petition saying, simply:<\/p>\n

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For more background and to sign the petition, click the image above. The beginning of the explanation reads:<\/p>\n

Wang Ping is an internationally renowned poet and professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has published ten books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. As an academic advisor, her students have gone on to become award-winning authors and even professors themselves. Macalester should be proud to have such a brilliant woman teaching at their institution.<\/p>\n

But they’re not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following last week’s post on Wang Ping’s grievance against Macalester College, here is a petition saying, simply: For more background and to sign the petition, click the image above. The beginning of the explanation reads: Wang Ping is an internationally … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[368],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-qZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1649,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1649","url_meta":{"origin":1673,"position":0},"title":"Wang Ping’s Statement on her suit with Macalester College","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"February 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The following is an open letter from Chinese \/ American poet Wang Ping. 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