{"id":122138,"date":"2018-11-26T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=122138"},"modified":"2018-11-14T10:48:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T10:48:55","slug":"my-88th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/11\/my-88th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"My 88th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

13 Nov 2018<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To be almost 90
\nAnd happy
\nWith good health<\/p>\n

Feels criminal
\nAmid Satanic happenings
\nRaising Images too dark
\nTo be real<\/p>\n

Children in Gaza
\nAre shot to death
\nFriday after Friday
\nBy armed vampires<\/p>\n

Khashoggi\u2019s murder
\nAn unspeakable crime
\nYet no more than a problem
\nFor hard men of power<\/p>\n

Events so dark
\nAnd so numerous
\nCasting shadows<\/p>\n

Will despair be our fate?
\nIs this truly our world?
\nAre we even meant to survive?<\/p>\n

My hope\u2013 to live
\nLong enough to shout
\nAn everlasting \u2018No\u2019<\/p>\n

And may so affirming
\nBecome my last word
\nBecome my testament
\nOf hope for all beings<\/p>\n

__________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/em>Richard Falk is a member of the TRANSCEND Network<\/a>, an international relations scholar, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, author, co-author or editor of 40 books, and a speaker and activist on world affairs.\u00a0In 2008, the United Nations Human Rights Council<\/a> (UNHRC) appointed Falk to a six-year term as a United Nations Special Rapporteur<\/a> on “the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories<\/a> occupied since 1967.” Since 2002 he has lived in Santa Barbara, California, and taught at the local campus of the University of California in Global and International Studies, and since 2005 chaired the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. His most recent book is <\/em>Achieving Human Rights (2009).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

-13 Nov 2018-
\nTo be almost 90
\nAnd happy
\nWith good health
\nFeels criminal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":122129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}