{"id":140943,"date":"2019-08-19T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=140943"},"modified":"2019-08-19T07:04:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T06:04:57","slug":"questionnaire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/08\/questionnaire-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Questionnaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1)<\/p>\n<p>How much poison are you willing<br \/>\nto eat for the success of the free<br \/>\nmarket and global trade? Please<br \/>\nname your preferred poisons.<\/p>\n<p>2)<\/p>\n<p>For the sake of goodness, how much<br \/>\nevil are you willing to do?<br \/>\nFill in the following blanks<br \/>\nwith the names of your favorite<br \/>\nevils and acts of hatred.<\/p>\n<p>3)<\/p>\n<p>What sacrifices are you prepared<br \/>\nto make for culture and civilization?<br \/>\nPlease list the monuments, shrines,<br \/>\nand works of art you would<br \/>\nmost willingly destroy.<\/p>\n<p>4)<\/p>\n<p>In the name of patriotism and<br \/>\nthe flag, how much of our beloved<br \/>\nland are you willing to desecrate?<br \/>\nList in the following spaces<br \/>\nthe mountains, rivers, towns, farms<br \/>\nyou could most readily do without.<\/p>\n<p>5)<\/p>\n<p>State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes,<br \/>\nthe energy sources, the kinds of security,<br \/>\nfor which you would kill a child.<br \/>\nName, please, the children whom<br \/>\nyou would be willing to kill.<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Wendell-Berry.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-140944 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Wendell-Berry-e1566194404545.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"69\" \/><\/a><em>Wendell Berry<\/em><em>, a poet of uncommon insight and courage of conviction, wrote this stunningly prescient poem first published in 2009 and later included in his altogether magnificent poetry collection <\/em>Leavings<em> (public library). <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Wendell Erdman Berry is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. He is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, a recipient of The National Humanities Medal, and the Jefferson Lecturer for 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendell Berry, a poet of uncommon insight and courage of conviction, wrote this stunningly prescient poem first published in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":140944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-140943","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\/140943","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=140943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}