{"id":218342,"date":"2022-08-22T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=218342"},"modified":"2022-08-22T06:18:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T05:18:28","slug":"why-dont-you-stop-this-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/08\/why-dont-you-stop-this-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Don\u2019t You Stop This War?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>19 Aug 2022<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are you living in a jar?<br \/>\nNo one \u00a0can see the brutality of war?<br \/>\nDon\u2019t close your eyes\u2026<br \/>\nDon\u2019t cover your eyes\u2026<br \/>\nDon\u2019t be silent\u2026<br \/>\nHave you put a lid on the jar?<br \/>\nHave you sealed yourself from the world?<br \/>\nMingled laughs while others are crying.<br \/>\nWounds are so deep.<br \/>\nInnocent can\u2019t sleep.<br \/>\nAre they giving \u00a0soldiers a medal to keep?<br \/>\nIt\u2019s human lives.<br \/>\nWasted\u2026they weep<\/p>\n<p>Why can\u2019t you put away your arrows?<br \/>\nKilling humans,<br \/>\nLike you shooting sparrows.<br \/>\nSadly you are an army of deadly Pharaohs.<br \/>\nWhy don\u2019t you stop the war?<br \/>\n_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Usha-Roopnarain-e1623990401501.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-186568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Usha-Roopnarain-e1623990401501.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Dr Usha Roopnarain \u2013 Former parliamentarian in the National Assembly of South Africa, social activist and passionate about human rights and gender equality.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 Aug 2022 &#8211;<br \/>\nAre you living in a jar?<br \/>\nNo one \u00a0can see the brutality of war?<br \/>\nDon\u2019t close your eyes\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":186568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[2009,868,70,1594],"class_list":["post-218342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-anti-war","tag-poetry","tag-usa","tag-war-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218342","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=218342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}