{"id":1095,"date":"2011-01-22T15:48:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T19:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2011-01-27T15:31:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T19:31:27","slug":"karim-wasfi-leads-iraqi-national-symphony-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/2011\/01\/22\/karim-wasfi-leads-iraqi-national-symphony-orchestra\/","title":{"rendered":"Karim Wasfi Leads Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment1107\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment1107\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1107\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/files\/2011\/01\/images1.jpeg\" alt=\"Karim Wasfi\" width=\"201\" height=\"251\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment1107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karim Wasfi. The Kaufman Center Website.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I cannot think of a better example of what the arts can mean to a nation than the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra lead by conductor and director, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703333504576080452174478650.html\">Kar<\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703333504576080452174478650.html\">im Wasfi, who <\/a><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703333504576080452174478650.html\">according to the <\/a><\/strong><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703333504576080452174478650.html\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/strong><\/em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703333504576080452174478650.html\">, studied political science at\u00a0Boston University.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The persistence and courage of the Orchestra is more than a point of pride, it demonstrates that the arts can play a <em>leading role<\/em> in the renewal of a nation. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot think of a better example of what the arts can mean to a nation than the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra lead by conductor and director, Karim Wasfi, who according to the Wall Street Journal, studied political science at\u00a0Boston University. The persistence and courage of the Orchestra is more than a point of pride, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1682,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4659,4658,4153],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}