{"id":22364,"date":"2012-10-22T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=22364"},"modified":"2012-10-21T17:43:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T16:43:59","slug":"is-this-what-it-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/10\/is-this-what-it-takes\/","title":{"rendered":"Is This What It Takes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is this what it takes\u2014<br \/>\nflaming, crumbling tombs on Wall Street,<br \/>\na burning Pentagon?<\/p>\n<p>Was it not enough to hear<br \/>\nof Vietnam&#8217;s body counts,<br \/>\nof Chile&#8217;s disappeared?<\/p>\n<p>The South Bronx is not spectacular,<br \/>\nits rubble uninspiring. Hunger<br \/>\ndoes not burn bright orange on TV.<\/p>\n<p>Are we now awake<br \/>\nto the pain of the world,<br \/>\nto our part in causing it?<\/p>\n<p>Dante is busy revising &#8220;Inferno&#8221;<br \/>\nfor Broadway, and its producers<br \/>\nare holding auditions for the big parts.<\/p>\n<p>But we will all be on stage.<br \/>\nLook for me in the chorus<br \/>\nholding a spear, or a bucket of tears.<\/p>\n<p>______________________<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Tom Greening:<\/em><\/strong><em> \u201cI engage in five professional activities:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Faculty Member at Saybrook University<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Private Practice of Psychotherapy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Clinical Professor of Psychology, UCLA<\/em><br \/>\n<em>International Editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Writing (Poetry).\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomgreening.com\/c_writer.php\" >http:\/\/www.tomgreening.com\/c_writer.php#<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this what it takes\u2014<br \/>\nflaming, crumbling tombs on Wall Street,<br \/>\na burning Pentagon?<\/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-22364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22364","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=22364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}