{"id":24,"date":"2010-03-01T19:37:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T03:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kartik.mithals.net\/?p=24"},"modified":"2012-04-29T17:50:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T00:50:44","slug":"gandhi-would-have-been-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kartik.mithals.net\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Gandhi would have been proud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 29, 2010, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/search\/ci_14295757?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com\">fundamentalist church picketed Gunn High School in Palo Alto<\/a>. They told the children that the reason that there had been a number of highly publicized suicide among Gunn High children was because the children had bad parents, and the community supported homosexuals.<\/p>\n<p>The church (to its credit, I suppose) got the necessary permissions to picket the school ahead of time. So the kids knew beforehand that they would be picketed. In a response that was amazing and admirable, the kids staged a counter protest. I was so moved by their reaction that I sent this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/letters\/ci_14319154?nclick_check=1\">letter to the editors<\/a>:<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Community  proud of Gunn students<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I was filled with admiration as I read your  report (Page 1A, Jan. 30) on the response of the Gunn High students to  the demonstration by the\u00c2\u00a0Westboro Baptist Church. They were  astoundingly mature and wise. They make me proud and happy to live in  the Bay Area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Jan. 30 was the day that Gandhi was  assassinated. He would have been proud. They should be proud. Their  parents should be proud. Their community\u00c2\u00a0<em><strong>is<\/strong><\/em> proud.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Anant Mithal<br \/>\nSan Jose<\/p>\n<p>My kids&#8217; godmother has a quote from Gandhi on her wall<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>I like your Christ. I don&#8217;t like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunn High School children take a page from Gandhi&#8217;s book in staging a counter protest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,18,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gandhi","category-history","category-peaceful-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kartik.mithals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kartik.mithals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kartik.mithals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kartik.mithals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kartik.mithals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kartik.mithals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kartik.mithals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kartik.mithals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kartik.mithals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}