{"id":198515,"date":"2021-11-08T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=198515"},"modified":"2021-11-02T09:44:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T09:44:50","slug":"the-dream-must-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/11\/the-dream-must-start\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dream Must Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it too early for a strong world government?<br \/>\nWiser men have said so for decade \u2014 too soon!<br \/>\nThere are far too many differing cultures,<br \/>\na myriad of languages and dialects!<br \/>\nThat we all sip coke in our Chinese jeans,<br \/>\nmay be a poor substitute<br \/>\nfor the political and social cohesion<br \/>\nneeded to support such a strange entity<br \/>\nas a strong, all encompassing<br \/>\nworld government with world laws.<\/p>\n<p>But who\u2019s to say?<br \/>\nWho really knows?<br \/>\nThe brightest European &amp; American minds<br \/>\npredicted right after WW II<br \/>\nwith solemn pomp,<br \/>\nthat the demise of the colonial system<br \/>\n\u2014 covering a mere 2\/3 of the world \u2014<br \/>\nwas long decades or a century away!<br \/>\nSo read this ancient govee student in those<br \/>\nyears as written by the reigning seers !<br \/>\nHistorically, most of the colonial empires<br \/>\n\u2014 and they were the victors of WW II \u2014<br \/>\nwe\u2019re gone within ten years!<br \/>\nA little, half naked, bandy-legged man<br \/>\neven led a half billion Hindu and Moslems<br \/>\nto independence from the biggest empire,<br \/>\nwithout war! Non-violently.<\/p>\n<p>Predicting the future is really tough,<br \/>\nbut you and I do make the future by our<br \/>\ndaily actions.<br \/>\nSo let\u2019s push for a world govee \u2014 non-violently!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it too early for a strong world government?<br \/>\nWiser men have said so for decade \u2014 too soon!<br \/>\nThere are far too many differing cultures,<br \/>\na myriad of languages and dialects!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[2307,868],"class_list":["post-198515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-democratic-world-federalists-dwf","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198515","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=198515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}