{"id":21117,"date":"2012-08-27T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=21117"},"modified":"2012-08-27T11:18:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T10:18:37","slug":"the-history-of-humankind-is-also-a-history-of-dignification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/08\/the-history-of-humankind-is-also-a-history-of-dignification\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of Humankind Is Also a History of Dignification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A Rhymed Reflection<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If, on the one hand, the history of Humankind is a history of edification<br \/>\nOn the other hand, the history of Humankind is also a history of humiliation<\/p>\n<p>The history of Humankind is also a history of humiliation<br \/>\nSad examples: age\/class\/ethnic\/gender\/race discrimination<\/p>\n<p>The history of Humankind is also a history of humiliation<br \/>\nA sad example: economic deprivation<\/p>\n<p>The history of Humankind is also a history of humiliation<br \/>\nA sad example: population dislocation<\/p>\n<p>The history of Humankind is also a history of humiliation<br \/>\nA sad example: political domination<\/p>\n<p>The history of Humankind is also a history of humiliation<br \/>\nA sad example: environmental devastation<\/p>\n<p>The history of Humankind is also a history of \u00a0humiliation<br \/>\nA sad example: communicative intimidation<\/p>\n<p>The history of \u00a0Humankind is also a history of \u00a0humiliation<br \/>\nA sad example: consumer exploitation<\/p>\n<p>Please add to the above. It is an open-ended listing.<\/p>\n<p>The history of \u00a0Humankind \u00a0is also a history of humiliation<br \/>\nA sad example: forced emigration<\/p>\n<p>The history of \u00a0Humankind is also a history of humiliation<br \/>\nA sad example: territorial occupation<\/p>\n<p>_______________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Francisco Gomes de Matos is a peace linguist and human rights educator from Recife-Brazil, author,<\/em><em> among others, of the book<\/em> Nurturing Nonkilling: A Poetic Plantation (<em>2010, Center for Global Nonkilling, Honolulu-Hawai\u2019i). Downloadable at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonkilling.org\"  target=\"_blank\">www.nonkilling.org<\/a><em>. Co-founder: The World Dignity University Initiative.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Rhymed Reflection<br \/>\nIf, on the one hand, the history of Humankind is a history of edification<br \/>\nOn the other hand, the history of Humankind is also a history of humiliation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21117","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=21117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}