{"id":6206,"date":"2012-07-20T07:19:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T14:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=6206"},"modified":"2012-07-20T07:19:36","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T14:19:36","slug":"coming-to-maine-to-study-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/coming-to-maine-to-study-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming to Maine to Study Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July\/August 2012<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>Amin and Yalda Esmaielpour enrolled at USM together. No doubt, former USM president\u00a0Selma Botman, in her new role promoting a more international student body, applauds.<\/h3>\n<p>By Cassandra Kane<\/p>\n<p>Writing and reading poetry in Iran about incendiary topics such as women\u2019s rights would most likely land Amin Esmaielpour in prison.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/pdf\/Coming%20to%20Maine%20to%20Study%20Abroad.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">View this story as a .pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Amin-and-Yalda-Esmaielpour-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6275\" title=\"Amin-and-Yalda-Esmaielpour-(4)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Amin-and-Yalda-Esmaielpour-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Amin-and-Yalda-Esmaielpour-4.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Amin-and-Yalda-Esmaielpour-4-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July\/August 2012<br \/>\nAmin and Yalda Esmaielpour enrolled at USM together. No doubt, former USM president Selma Botman, in her new role promoting a more international student body, applauds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6206"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6373,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206\/revisions\/6373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}