{"id":208523,"date":"2022-04-04T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=208523"},"modified":"2022-04-04T06:50:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T05:50:53","slug":"resisting-militarism-mission-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/04\/resisting-militarism-mission-impossible\/","title":{"rendered":"Resisting Militarism: Mission Impossible?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>

Banksy \u2013 CND Soldiers, first released by Pictures on Walls of London, 2005<\/p><\/div>\n

“I want to escape from my own threshold.<\/em>
\nWhere to? The street is dark<\/em>
\nAnd conscience shows up ahead of me, white,<\/em>
\nLike salt scattered for pavements.”<\/em><\/p>\n

— Osip Mandelshtam (1891-1938)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

30 Mar 2022 – <\/em>O<\/span>n 23 January 2015, 49-year-old Ruslan Kotsaba \u2013 journalist and blogger, president of the Ukrainian Pacifist Society and an initial supporter of the 2014 Revolution which ousted pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych \u2013 visited the eastern Donbas region where rebels, backed by Moscow, were waging a brutal war of independence. The brutality, however, was evident on both sides, and with conscript pitted against conscript Kotsaba posted a YouTube message<\/a> to President Petro Poroshenko:<\/p>\n

I know that mobilization is declared under martial law. I would rather go to prison than go into civil war now and kill my compatriots who live in the East. \u2026I will not take part in this fratricidal war.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"Ruslan<\/p>\n

Ruslan Kotsaba on 12 December 2013, during protests outside the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office of Ukraine on Riznytska Street, (Photo by Mykola Vasylechko via Wikimedia Commons)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

On February 7, Kotsaba was detained, charged with \u201chigh treason\u201d and \u201cobstructing the lawful activities of the Ukrainian military.\u201d He spent 16 months in appalling pre-trial conditions, during which Amnesty International named him<\/a> their first prisoner-of-conscience in Ukraine since the Revolution, decrying his \u201ctreatment\u201d as \u201ca brazen restriction on the right to freedom of expression\u2026one of the fundamental rallying cries of the [2014] protestors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amnesty placed Kotsaba\u2019s case in the context of \u201ca string of suspicious deaths of former allies\u201d of Yanukovych, including journalist Oles Buzyna, shot in broad Kyiv daylight in April 2015: an orgy of \u201cmob violence\u201d perpetrated with suspicious ease by far-right paramilitaries also responsible for numerous atrocities in the Donbas war. A week after Kotsaba\u2019s arrest, France and Germany brokered the \u2018Minsk-II\u2019 ceasefire agreement which \u2013 if implemented by Poroshenko or his \u2018peace ticket\u2019 successor, Volodymyr Zelenskiy \u2013 would have preserved Ukraine\u2019s territorial integrity (minus Crimea, annexed by Russia after Yanukovych\u2019s ouster) at what now seems the bargain price<\/a> of regional autonomy for the two self-declared \u2018People\u2019s Republics\u2019 of Donetsk and Luhansk. Instead, \u2018low-level\u2019 fighting \u2013 a pretext for President Vladimir Putin\u2019s unconscionable invasion \u2013 claimed thousands of lives, many of them conscripts celebrated as \u2018heroes\u2019 by a state that sometimes resorted to \u201chunting for draftees.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

T<\/span>his, alas, is not Russian propaganda. In September 2019, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) \u2013 painting a grim general picture of endemic state and non-state violence and abuse \u2013 condemned \u201cforced conscription\u201d in Ukraine<\/a>, the breakaway Republics and Crimea. The OHCHR urged the Ministry of Defense to \u201ctake measures to ensure that military commissariats cease the practice of arbitrary arrest and ill-treatment in the context of conscription,\u201d and urged law enforcement agencies to \u201cinvestigate all cases of arbitrary detention.\u201d A 2020 study<\/a> by the European Bureau of Conscientious Objection homed in on the horror by reference to, appropriately, two brothers who refused to take up arms:<\/p>\n

Yehor Potamanov was abducted by police and military commissariat during the raid for conscripts on the streets of the city [of Lviv, now thronged with refugees, near the Polish border] when he was taking his sick father to the hospital with his brother. Protesting against the abduction, Yehor resorted to a week-long hunger strike and refused to take a military oath. According to Dmytro, brother of Yehor, hundreds of conscripts were abducted in the same way in the streets of Kharkiv [now war-ravaged, on the border with Russia] that summer. Three of them cut their veins and one hanged himself in desperate attempts to get an exemption from the draft on the grounds of mental disorder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Similar or even grimmer stories abound across Russia where, since 1989, the Committee of Soldiers\u2019 Mothers of Russia (CSMR) has waged a brave campaign against the multiple physical and psychological abuses of troops and, most cruelly, of conscripts at that time leading to around 5,000 suicides per year. Accepting the Right Livelihood Award<\/a> in 1996, CSMR stressed that the soldiers\u2019 mothers quickly:<\/p>\n

\u2026understood that to defend their children they have to change the state and the society. Their call for human rights in all the military power structures meant a call for democracy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The Committee of Soldiers\u2019 Mothers of Russia (CSMR), 1996. (Photo via Right Livelihood<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Twenty-six years later, as a Russian leader sent more \u2018heroes\u2019 into new Valleys of Death, CSMR\u2019s Valentina Melnikova lamented<\/a> that:<\/p>\n

\u2026like the wars in Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Georgia, no one gets asked before being sent out on combat operations. Willing or not, by conscription or by contract, they send everyone considered necessary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Theirs is not to question why\u2026<\/p>\n

I<\/span>n May 2016, Kotsaba was acquitted of treason but sentenced to three-and-a half-years for \u201cobstructing\u201d a war that had never been formally declared \u2014 an omission, he argued, invalidating the conscription decree. In June, he unexpectedly won an appeal against the verdict and was released, only to be recharged (on both counts) and tried again, beginning in November 2020. Though at liberty, his victimization continued: in January 2021, he, his mother and his lawyer were assaulted by far-right hooligans (chanting \u2018Death to Enemies!\u2019 and \u2018Glory to Ukraine!\u2019) on their way to court; and in June, as his case crawled on, he required surgery to save his sight after a \u201cneo-Nazi gang<\/a>\u201d burnt his retina with \u2018zelenka,\u2019 the brilliant green dye weaponized by pro-Putin thugs against Alexei Navalny<\/a> and other Russian dissidents.<\/p>\n

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\"Yurii<\/p>\n

Yurii Sheliazhenko (Source: World Beyond War<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Unable to find up-to-date information on Kotsaba\u2019s case (or condition), I contacted Yurii Sheliazhenko<\/a>, executive secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, in Kyiv. In a March 20 email, Sheliazhenko told me \u201cthe next hearings\u201d in the re-trial \u201care formally scheduled for April,\u201d and, if held, would merely continue \u201cto summon and interrogate witnesses who know nothing and were called just to say that Ruslan\u2019s video created popular sentiment against military service.\u201d The \u201cformal pretext,\u201d he explained, \u201cfor quashing Ruslan\u2019s acquittal was that the court did not proceed with all testimonies and wrongly treated them as irrelevant\u201d: \u201cIn fact, they are indeed irrelevant, but the high court (under pressure of neo-Nazis)\u201d made them \u201ca formal pretext\u201d for acquittal, and \u201cso the lower court\u201d feels \u201cobliged to continue this circus of political prosecution.\u201d<\/p>\n

Responding to my latest Spectator<\/em> column<\/a>, Sheliazhenko wrote \u201cyou are right that \u2018war scares inevitably generate\u2026an almost hallucinogenic, dehumanizing, self-righteous hatred of the Other.\u2019\u201d \u201cIt already did that,\u201d he added, referring in part to how, since the invasion, most of \u201cRuslan\u2019s pro-Russian friends have been arrested.\u201d Many will belong to that vast category \u2014 \u2018men of fighting age\u2019 (18-60) \u2014 banned from leaving the country and now liable to be either armed or interned. And on the day of Sheliazhenko\u2019s email, Ukraine\u2019s National Security and Defense Council banned (for the duration of martial law) no fewer than 11 \u2018pro-Russian\u2019 political parties, including the Platform for Life party with around 10% of all seats in parliament (44 of 450). \u201cThe activities of those politicians aimed at division or collusion,\u201d Zelenskiy vowed, \u201cwill not succeed, but will receive a harsh response;\u201d and \u201cthe \u201cpolitical move comes,\u201d The Guardian<\/em> reported<\/a>, as the president \u201caims to further assert his influence over the country\u2019s media sphere,\u201d signing \u201ca decree that aims to unite all national TV channels into one, citing the importance of a \u2018unified information policy.’\u201d<\/p>\n

I<\/span>t is important to stress that being a \u2018pro-Russian\u2019 Ukrainian does not equate to being an anti-Ukrainian Russian; to being a traitor or saboteur; or to having no sympathy with the many thousands of genuinely heroic Russians \u2013 \u201cscum and traitors<\/a>,\u201d in Putin\u2019s words -\u2013 protesting in myriad non-violent ways, often with women\u2019s groups in the vanguard<\/a>, the insane \u2018special military operation\u2019 ordered by their leader.<\/p>\n

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\""Saint<\/p>\n

\u201cSaint Javelin\u201d sticker. (Source: Saint Javelin website)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What it generally does equate to is a dedication to protecting Russian culture and language, and opposition to an alienating \u2018pro-Westernism\u2019 \u2013 insultingly consigning Russia to the \u2018uncivilized\u2019 edge of \u2018Europe proper\u2019 \u2013 seeking militarized expression<\/a> in NATO membership. (This \u2018Othering\u2019 can also be seen in the disgraceful treatment<\/a> by both Ukrainian and Polish officials of non-white refugees; and in the widespread shock<\/a> that \u2018civilized\u2019 Europe should endure the kind of \u2018savage\u2019 conflict common \u2018elsewhere\u2019 \u2013 often, it should be said, \u2018elsewheres\u2019 (Iraq, Libya, etc) Western countries have invaded. Writing in open Democracy<\/em> on February 7, Almut Rochowanski asked \u201cWhat would real peacekeeping in Ukraine look like<\/a>?\u201d arguing that it \u201cbegins with dismantling\u201d the \u201cdogma\u201d that:<\/p>\n

Ukraine is a country of united citizens who have made a \u2018civilizational choice\u2019 to turn West and are happily embarking on a process of cultural-linguistic homogenization. Instead, Ukraine was in 2013-14, and is today, a country with great, intersectional diversity and consequent complex fault lines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We need, in short, emergency rations of what the Russian poet Osip Mandelshtam identified as Stalin\u2019s worst fear: \u201cthe nightmare of nuance.\u201d So dumbly Russophobic<\/a> has the general Western response to the war been, however, that it is possible to imagine calls for a reading of Mandelshtam\u2019s poems to be cancelled, just as \u2013 as Noam Chomsky scathingly lamented:<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2026an Italian university tried to ban a series of lectures on Dostoyevsky, to take just one of many egregious examples of how Europeans are making fools of themselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Such a vacuum of analysis is often filled with kitsch tastelessness, as in the egregious Canadian example of \u2018Saint Javelin<\/a>,\u2019 marketer Christian Borys\u2019 depiction of what the BBC called \u201cthe unlikeliest of all images \u2013 a rocket-armed saint\u201d: the Virgin Mary, no less, dapper in Ukrainian blue-and-yellow, \u201ccradling a US-made FGM-148 anti-tank weapon\u201d. Borys, donating 100% of profits to Ukrainian relief efforts, seems sincerely motivated to help, and was thrilled at the \u201ccompletely viral\u201d response from an equally sincere Canadian public. But that\u2019s the point: faced with the almost cubist complexities of Ukrainian-Russian history and culture \u2013 and given the desperate need to make peace not war in a nuclear-powderkeg Europe<\/a> \u2014 such sincerity becomes, like \u2018Saint Javelin\u2019 herself, a simply sick joke.<\/p>\n

P<\/span>utin himself can be Simplifier-in-Chief, making the job of \u2018nuance-nerds\u2019 like Rochowanski even harder (and easier, ironically, to depict as \u2018na\u00efve\u2019). Putin is prone, for example, to grossly exaggerating the scale of the assault on the Russian language in post-2014 Ukraine. But an attack is nonetheless under way, as Human Rights Watch\u2019s Rachel Denber observed<\/a>, commenting on a January 2022 state language law requiring that only Ukrainian \u201cbe used in most aspects of public life,\u201d and compelling \u201cprint media outlets registered in Ukraine to publish in Ukrainian.\u201d And as Denber notes, insult is then added to injury:<\/p>\n

Article 25, regarding print media outlets, makes exceptions for certain minority languages, English, and official EU languages, but not for Russian.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"Vladimir<\/p>\n

Vladimir Putin, 24 February 2022<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

While it is obviously hyper-ironic for Putin to justify a war of illegal aggression on the grounds of \u2018demilitarization,\u2019 that does not mean we need to glorify (our own) militarism; flood Ukraine, a country with a notorious black market in arms<\/a>, with weapons; comprehensively neglect to launch or encourage serious peace initiatives or mediation efforts; or embrace \u2014 as Germany, most spectacularly, is now doing<\/a>\u00a0 \u2013 programs of manic re-armament. As Sheliazhenko reminded Democracy Now!<\/em> viewers<\/a> on March 1, upon taking office in 2019 Zelenskiy \u201ctotally surrendered to the war machine,\u201d while the \u201cpeace movement\u201d continued to warn that \u201creckless militarization will lead to war. We were right.\u201d Likewise, while Putin\u2019s claim that Ukraine\u2019s leadership (including its first Jewish President?) requires \u2018de-Nazification\u2019 is absurd, it is \u201cextraordinarily frustrating,\u201d as Ukrainian-American journalist Lev Golinkin told Democracy Now!:<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u2026to see people are saying it\u2019s one of two things: It\u2019s either \u2018Putin is a savior on a campaign to free Ukraine,\u2019 which is garbage, or \u2018Well, I guess that means that Ukraine doesn\u2019t have any neo-Nazis, so we shouldn\u2019t worry about them.\u2019 We should. We can support Ukraine, and I believe it is supporting Ukraine to make sure that these far-right groups do not have access to weapons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cIt is impossible,\u201d Golinkin continued in despair, \u201cto hold both thoughts in our head right now,\u201d to disrupt our clear image of the conflict by admitting \u201cUkraine does have a neo-Nazi presence, including a neo-Nazi regiment in its armed forces, OK?\u201d \u2013 a reference to the notorious \u2018Azov Brigade\u2019, \u201can official part of the country\u2019s National Guard,\u201d as Jeremy Scahill writes in The Intercept<\/em><\/a>, despite the fact that \u201csince 2018, largely because of the work of\u2026progressive lawmakers, there has been an official ban\u201d \u2013 now, of course, impossible to monitor \u2013 \u201con US assistance\u201d to the overtly anti-Semitic group.<\/p>\n

On March 9, only 15 progressive members of the House opposed providing an additional $3.5 billion in weapons and other military supplies to Ukraine. (On March 16, an additional $800 million in military aid \u2014 including swarms of \u2018switchblade\u2019 killer drones<\/a> \u2014 was forthcoming). Representative Ilhan Omar (Democrat \u2013 Minnesota) justified her \u201cNo\u201d by tweeting:<\/p>\n

\"Ilhan<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I<\/span>ndeed, the \u201cUkrainian far right,\u201d as Golinkin argues:<\/p>\n

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\n

\"Azov<\/p>\n

Azov Brigade Badge<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2026could not have wished for anything better than this, OK? It\u2019s very much harder to criticize them, and they\u2019re also now open for recruitment. \u2026 From the beginning of this conflict [in the Donbas], both sides, the separatists and the Ukrainian far right, have attracted neo-Nazis from all over the world to get firsthand experience in battle. \u2026 Somebody always benefits from a war. And Ukraine\u2019s far right is the primary benefactor on the Ukraine side of this war, because they now get to attract people from all over the world, and they get to be seen as on the frontlines of fighting for white civilization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As he says, this is a war pitting white supremacists against each other \u2014 the Azov Brigade, for example, versus the notorious Russian-funded Wagner Group<\/a>\u00a0 \u2014 and while the spectacle of mutual neo-Nazi slaughter might say something about their strategic acumen, the bigger issue is the damage such a \u2018brilliant green light\u2019 for violence may wreak, however the war officially \u2018ends,\u2019 on an already deeply-damaged nation. As early as February 27, in an article for World Beyond War<\/em><\/a>, Sheliazhenko was witnessing scenes bordering on social psychosis:<\/p>\n

When martial law and total mobilization is proclaimed, and rifles handed out to thousands of newly recruited city soldiers, and selfies with rifles become trendy on Facebook, and nobody knows who and why somebody suddenly shoots at the street\u2026<\/p>\n

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\"Wagner<\/p>\n

Wagner Group Logo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

When even civilians in a condominium are preparing to meet an enemy with Molotov cocktails, as the army recommends, and they delete from their Viber chat a neighbor perceived as a traitor because of calling people to be careful\u2026<\/p>\n

When distant sounds of explosions from windows are mixing in mind with messages about deaths and destruction, and hate, and distrust, and panic, and calls to arms, to more bloodshed for sovereignty\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the Comments thread, \u2018Jeff\u2019 stated, \u201cYou are very na\u00efve for a man under attack by a tyrannical despot,\u201d and \u2018RealityCheck\u2019 opined, \u201cThere is a time for peaceful means, yes. When you are dealing with rational people.\u201d Yet serious peaceful resistance is not passive, and has already proven, as Sheliazhenko told Democracy Now!<\/em>, movingly effective:<\/p>\n

Brave Ukrainian civilians are changing street signs and blocking streets and blocking tanks, just staying in their way without weapons\u2026 For example, in Berdyansk city and Kulykivka village, people organized peace rallies and convinced the Russian military to get out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

N<\/span>ot all pacifists can be expected to hold firm under such withering pressure: \u201cI don\u2019t think the country should be militarized\u2026but we live in the moment when the Army matters,\u201d to quote Ukrainian peace activist Nataliya Gumenyuk<\/a>. I\u2019m sure they all agree, however, that the terrible, lonely decision to fight should indeed be a choice; that denying millions of men the right either to conscientiously object or leave the country is criminal. It certainly violates the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, as Law Professor Amy Maguire explains<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It is one thing to conscript men into military service, providing training and appropriate equipment \u2013 although, even in that case, a right to conscientious objection must be respected. It is another thing entirely to prevent civilians from escaping a war zone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the context of the decision of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to investigate Russian war crimes in Ukraine, Maguire cautions that Kyiv too \u201cmust remain mindful of its own practice;\u201d yet even though the departure ban (also trapping thousands of transgender women<\/a>) is separating millions of families, leaving many women and children more traumatized and vulnerable<\/a> as refugees, the silence of most \u2018law-abiding\u2019 western states has been deafening.<\/p>\n

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\"Ukrainian<\/p>\n

Ukrainian refugees entering Poland, March 2022. (Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine website, CC BY 4.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Maguire recounts the story of \u201can animator named Tyrhan, who unsuccessfully tried to cross the border to Poland.\u201d \u201cI can\u2019t imagine myself,\u201d he told a reporter, \u201cdoing military stuff\u2026 I have no experience in it. I\u2019m afraid of holding a gun.\u201d He was \u201cshamed at the border by guards\u201d; and his story, I believe \u2013- his one, scared, \u2018unmanly\u2019 face of war \u2014 shows why the connection Sheliazhenko makes between \u2018bloodshed\u2019 and \u2018sovereignty\u2019 is so vital. Military efforts, he told Democracy Now!<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u2026to uphold absolute sovereignty are promoting despotism rather than democracy. When NATO members provide military aid to support sovereignty of Ukrainian government, or when Russia sends troops to fight for self-proclaimed sovereignty of Donetsk and Luhansk separatists, you should remember that unchecked sovereignty means bloodshed\u2026 All democracies emerged from resistance to bloodthirsty sovereigns, individual and collective. War profiteers of the West are the same threat to democracy as the authoritarian rulers of the East. And their attempts to divide and rule the Earth are essentially similar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In his 2013 book A New Therapy for Politics<\/em>, psychologist Andrew Samuels writes of the importance of \u201cdenationalizing the psyche, stopping the pattern in which individuals are educated to think like states\u201d \u2014 the most catastrophic consequence of which is the tendency in crises, and especially in war, to identify with states not just as people but parents (Mother- and Fatherlands) to \u2018whom\u2019 we owe allegiance. Such basic category errors also act to \u2018justify\u2019 collective punishments of whole peoples \u2014 e.g. brutal blockades and boycotts of \u2018Russia\u2019 \u2014 for the sins of the personified state.<\/p>\n

The Austrian writer Robert Musil concluded his novel The Man Without Qualities<\/em>, set in pre-WW1 Vienna, with the emphatic declaration:<\/p>\n

Overall problem: war. Pseudorealities lead to war. All lines lead to the war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It may be a mission impossible, but can pacifism help lead us back?<\/p>\n

__________________________________________________<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Sean Howard is adjunct professor of political science at Cape Breton University, and a member of Peace Quest Cape Breton<\/a> and the Canadian Pugwash Group. He may be reached here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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30 Mar 2022 – \u201cI don\u2019t think the country should be militarized\u2026 but we live in the moment when the Army matters.\u201d — Ukrainian peace activist Nataliya Gumenyuk. But denying millions the right to conscientiously object or leave the country is criminal. Overall problem: war. Pseudorealities lead to war. All lines lead to the war. It may be a mission impossible, but can pacifism help lead us back?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":146321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[229,1817,2134,101,1253,100,291,2462,1834,99],"class_list":["post-208523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-militarism","tag-activism","tag-anti-militarism","tag-conscientious-objector","tag-cultural-violence","tag-demilitarization","tag-direct-violence","tag-military","tag-military-industrial-media-complex","tag-pacifism","tag-structural-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208523","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=208523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}