{"id":135858,"date":"2019-06-24T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=135858"},"modified":"2019-06-30T06:36:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T05:36:53","slug":"bombing-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/06\/bombing-sheep\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombing Sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a hot, dry, smoggy day in Los Angeles,<br \/>\na military jet roars over my house,<br \/>\nleaving a beautiful white vapor trail.<br \/>\nNothing to fear.<br \/>\nI am looking at a newspaper photo of Syria.<br \/>\nWell-tended fields, pine trees,<br \/>\nlush green hills, a country house.<br \/>\nI imagine a cool stream, fresh air,<br \/>\nlight breeze, and sheep.<br \/>\nBut a bomber has just<br \/>\nblown up an ammunition dump.<br \/>\nand black smoke billows into the blue sky.<br \/>\nWhat do the sheep do now?<br \/>\nWhat do I do?<br \/>\n<em><strong>____________________________________________<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tom-Greening.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-135859 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tom-Greening-e1560942780133.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>Tom Greening:<\/em><em> I engage in five professional activities: faculty member at Saybrook University; private practice of psychotherapy; clinical professor of psychology, UCLA; international editor of the <\/em>Journal of Humanistic Psychology<em>; writing (poetry). <\/em><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomgreening.com\" >www.tomgreening.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a hot, dry, smoggy day in Los Angeles,<br \/>\na military jet roars over my house,<br \/>\nleaving a beautiful white vapor trail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":135859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-135858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135858","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=135858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}