{"id":224995,"date":"2022-12-05T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=224995"},"modified":"2022-12-04T07:39:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T07:39:45","slug":"nato-narratives-and-corporate-media-are-leading-to-doorstep-of-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/12\/nato-narratives-and-corporate-media-are-leading-to-doorstep-of-doom\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO Narratives and Corporate Media Are Leading to \u2018Doorstep of Doom\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US Army, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons – NATO Troops<\/p><\/div>\n

1 Dec 2022 – <\/em>A popular cartoon<\/a> aptly expresses the political angst provoked by media pundits today as they chatter on about nuclear war: Two people, both a little hunched over, burdened with the world, are walking down a city street. The woman says to the man, \u201cMy desire to be well-informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Wall<\/p>\n

Wall Street Journal<\/strong> (4\/27\/22<\/a>): \u201cUnless the US prepares to win a nuclear war, it risks losing one.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As we slide closer to what was once considered the ultimate insanity\u2014nuclear Armageddon\u2014corporate media seem to be egging on reckless leaders as they make thinly veiled threats across an imaginary nuclear line. On 60 Minutes <\/b>(9\/18\/22<\/a>), in response to the question, \u201cWhat [would you] say to [Vladimir Putin] if he is considering using chemical or tactical nuclear weapons?\u201d Joe Biden said, \u201cDon\u2019t. Don\u2019t. Don\u2019t. You will change the face of war unlike anything since World War II.\u201d The president was, of course, referencing the US bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.<\/p>\n

Biden also reiterated the US\u2019s goal of total victory: \u201cWinning the war in Ukraine is to get Russia out of Ukraine completely.\u201d Interviewer Scott Pelley did not point out that this would mean driving Russia out of Crimea\u2014territory that Russia has long promised to defend with nuclear weapons (Diplomat<\/b>, 7\/11\/14<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Two months into the war in Ukraine, the Wall Street Journal<\/b> (4\/27\/22<\/a>) proclaimed, \u201cThe US Should Show It Can Win a Nuclear War.\u201d Gone are the days of rational deterrence and Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), a doctrine based on knowledge of the deadly consequences<\/a> of nuclear war: Just the threat of using such awesome destruction against an enemy would prevent the enemy\u2019s use of those same weapons.<\/p>\n

\u2018Dangerous\u2019 peace deals<\/b><\/h3>\n
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\"Insider:<\/p>\n

Insider<\/strong> (10\/15\/22<\/a>) argues that \u201cdesire to avoid a nuclear war could actually make the world more dangerous.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In a moment of sanity, the LA Times<\/b> (8\/15\/22<\/a>) admitted that a nuclear exchange involving only 3% of the world\u2019s stockpiles would kill a third of the global population within two years. And The Nation<\/b> (10\/18\/22<\/a>) admonished the US and Russia both for what it called \u201cplayacting nuclear war,\u201d each with its own nuclear games. Consortium News<\/b> (10\/31\/22<\/a>) warned that the US deploying nuclear-capable B-52s to Australia, presumably to threaten China, is \u201cmilitary madness.\u201d<\/p>\n

But other media have engaged in strained linguistic maneuvering to promote the murder of billions of people. One pretzeled headline from Insider <\/b>(10\/15\/22<\/a>): \u201cPutin\u2019s Nuclear Threats Are Pushing People Like Trump and Elon Musk to Press for a Ukraine Peace Deal. A Nuclear Expert Warns That\u2019s \u2018Dangerous.\u2019\u201d The article began, \u201cAn understandable desire to avoid a nuclear war could actually make the world more dangerous if it means rushing to implement a \u2018peace.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Seeking to explain how we\u2019re learning to love to bomb and give up our engagement with reasoned thought, sports writer Robert Lipsyte (TomDispatch<\/b>, 10\/18\/22<\/a>) noted that we\u2019ve been trained to look for something huge, like a big bang or grand slam:<\/p>\n

The dream of the game-changing home run has shaped our approach to so much, from sports to geopolitics. Most significantly, it\u2019s damaged our ability to solve problems through reason and diplomacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When the Bomb is treated as the ultimate home run, the loss of reason and diplomacy lies directly at the feet of war censorship and propaganda, which have permeated corporate news since World War I. The domination of NATO narratives has followed this lead, even as the stakes have become existentially higher.<\/p>\n

Demonize the enemy<\/b><\/h3>\n
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\"WaPo:<\/p>\n

Washington Post<\/strong> (3\/10\/22<\/a>): \u201cPerhaps nuance is overrated.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

There has been no better villain than Vladimir Putin, a point recognized by the Washington Post<\/b> (3\/10\/22<\/a>), which recalled decades of some of the worst movie stereotypes. But it concluded, \u201cReal life provided the foundation for every pop culture depiction of Russia.\u201d In other words, Putin really is<\/i> a Bond villain.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s an enemy beyond redemption, not part of the human family, an unspeakable monster, an evil Other who cannot be reasoned with (Extra!<\/b>, 5\/14<\/a>; FAIR.org<\/b>, 3\/30\/22<\/a>, 7\/21\/22<\/a>). And this extends from Putin to Putin\u2019s government to Russia itself.<\/p>\n

Many Western news outlets repeated unsourced allegations made by Lyudmila Denisova, Ukrainian commissioner for human rights, of atrocities carried out by Russian troops. An implausible story about how two Russians raped a one-year-old baby to death was repeated in Business Insider<\/b><\/a>, <\/i>the Daily Beast<\/b><\/a>, the Daily Mail<\/b><\/a>, the Sun<\/b><\/a>, Metro<\/b><\/a>, the Daily Mirror<\/b><\/a> and Yahoo News<\/b><\/a> (Consortium News<\/b>, 6\/1\/22<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Newsweek<\/b> (4\/8\/22<\/a>) promoted another story sourced to Denisova that claimed, \u201cRussians Raped 11-Year-Old Boy, Forced Mom to Watch: Ukraine Official.\u201d This story lacked the warning that an earlier Newsweek<\/b> piece (3\/4\/22<\/a>) about rape charges included: \u201cAlthough rape is common during wars, accusations of rape can also be used as a propaganda tool to vilify the enemy and this tactic has been used in past conflicts.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response to Denisova\u2019s stream of atrocity narratives, Ukrainian journalists and media outlets signed an open letter<\/a> requesting that reports of rape and sexual assault be \u201cpublished with caution,\u201d particularly when involving children. The letter criticized Denisova\u2019s reports, many of which were unverified, that went into great detail about the alleged rape of children, some as young as six months old, by Russians. They asked her to \u201ccheck the facts\u201d and disclose only information with \u201csufficient evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

One week later, Denisova was fired from her position (Newsweek<\/b>, 5\/31\/22<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Beyond redemption<\/b><\/h3>\n
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\"Common<\/p>\n

Common Dreams<\/strong> (3\/18\/22<\/a>) reports on a media \u201ca narrative that war is inevitable, diplomacy is exhausted (before it even gets started), and being against militaristic US or NATO solutions to the crisis is unpatriotic at best.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

While rape and sexual assault are indeed military strategies in war, tales of raping and killing babies have also long served to foster outrage toward official enemies, from World War I German soldiers bayoneting babies<\/a> to Kuwaiti babies yanked out of their incubators<\/a> in the first Persian Gulf War.<\/p>\n

But most Americans, especially young people, don\u2019t recognize propaganda, because even when it is exposed at the time, it is not incorporated into the broader narratives of war. Debunked tales have gone down the Orwellian memory hole, and most of the true history of war goes down the same hole. As Bryce Greene pointed out on Counterspin <\/b>(2\/24\/22<\/a>), the roots of the escalations leading up to the war in Ukraine were \u201ccompletely omitted from the Western media.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/b>Because the evil enemy is always solely responsible and beyond redemption, there is no need to include an accurate history, or correct the false claims, or include the reasons for war. As FAIR (3\/4\/22<\/a>) pointed out, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is frequently described as \u201cunprovoked.\u201d The explanation for war is simple: It\u2019s good vs evil.<\/p>\n

And the US is always good, even though the country has perpetrated a senseless, expensive and brutal war in the Middle East for the entire 21st century. When corporate media did \u201cexplain\u201d the war in Ukraine, it \u201calmost universally gave a pro-Western view of US\/Russia relations and the history behind them\u201d (FAIR.org<\/b>, 1\/28\/22<\/a>). Common Dreams<\/b> (3\/18\/22<\/a>) observed that journalists were more hawkish at news conferences than Biden\u2019s press secretary, often \u201ccheerleading for US escalation in Ukraine,\u201d with more weapons and no-fly zones.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Getting to the edge of\u00a0 doom\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
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\"Real<\/p>\n

Real News<\/strong> (10\/28\/22<\/a>): \u201cUkrainians have been paying a terrible price for the failure of ensuring sensible and reasonable negotiations.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Foreign Affairs <\/b>(9\u201310\/22<\/a>), citing US officials, reported that in April 2022, two months into the war, \u201cRussian and Ukrainian negotiators appeared to have tentatively agreed on the outlines of a negotiated interim settlement,\u201d in a deal worked out in Turkey. This\u00a0 deal was scuttled, however, reportedly after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson went to Kiev and told President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the West wasn\u2019t ready for a deal, and that there would be no Western security for Ukraine if he signed the accord (Ukrainska Pravda<\/b>, 5\/5\/22<\/a>; see ScheerPost.com<\/b>, 9\/1\/22<\/a>). In public remarks (8\/24\/22<\/a>) four months later, Johnson declared that \u201cthis is not the time to advance some flimsy plan for negotiation with someone who is simply not interested\u201d:<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t negotiate with a bear while it\u2019s eating your leg, you can\u2019t negotiate with a street robber who has you pinned to the floor, and we don\u2019t need to worry about humiliating Putin any more than we would need to worry about humiliating the bear or the robber.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The US has likewise continually refused to negotiate the end to the war. The Real News Network<\/b> (10\/28\/22<\/a>) reported that before the war started, the Kremlin told<\/a> Biden that Russia was interested in \u201clegally fixed guarantees that rule out NATO expansion eastward and the deployment of offensive strike weapons systems in states adjacent to Russia.\u201d The talks were not pursued\u2014in the context of US establishment media offering opinions that a war would hurt Russia, and would therefore be a good thing for the US (FAIR.org<\/b>, 1\/15\/22<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Protests across the country, organized by Code Pink and the Peace in Ukraine Coalition, hit the streets in September to call for an end to the war. The organizers interrogated the ahistorical, one-sided, distorted NATO narrative that leaves out NATO\u2019s role<\/a> in the conflict. Led by the US, NATO has now expanded<\/a> from 12 countries to 30. The inclusion of Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Lithuania pushed right up to Russia\u2019s borders (Common Dreams<\/b>, 9\/20\/22<\/a>).<\/p>\n

On a long Twitter<\/b> thread (2\/28\/22<\/a>), commentator Arnaud Bertrand cited over a dozen \u201ctop strategic thinkers\u201d who had warned what was coming if NATO continued on the path it was taking. In 1998, George Kennan<\/a> said NATO expansion would be a \u201ctragic mistake\u201d that would certainly provoke a \u201cbad reaction from Russia.\u201d John Mearsheimer, a leading US geopolitical scholar, warned in 2015<\/a> that the West was leading Ukraine down a \u201cprimrose path,\u201d and it would result in Ukraine getting \u201cwrecked.\u201d Russia scholar Stephen Cohen told Democracy Now!<\/b> (4\/17\/14<\/a>) that moving NATO toward Russia\u2019s borders would militarize the situation. These arguments are rarely included in corporate news reporting on the Ukraine War.<\/p>\n

Further, the US supported the 2014 coup<\/a> in Ukraine, and has loaded Ukraine with arms to undermine the 2015 Minsk II<\/a> peace agreement. Russia and Ukraine signed the accord to end the civil war that followed the coup and left an estimated 14,000 people dead<\/a> in Ukraine\u2019s industrial Donbas region. Corporate media habitually omit Minsk II, and actively deny the documented history of fighting between the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion<\/a> and Russian separatists.<\/p>\n

\u2018This isn\u2019t a card game\u2019<\/b><\/h3>\n
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\"Axios:<\/p>\n

UN chief Ant\u00f3nio Guterres (Axios<\/strong>, 9\/26\/22<\/a>): \u201cNuclear weapons are the most destructive power ever created\u2026. Their elimination would be the greatest gift we could bestow on future generations.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Without context and accuracy, reasoned discourse and the ability to find solutions or engage in diplomacy are beyond our reach as we approach nuclear Armageddon. Corporate newsframes regularly exclude alternative voices of peace and those who call for an end to war, leaving out an entire discourse that has animated global discussions about conflict resolution for decades.<\/p>\n

Karl Grossman (FAIR.org<\/b>, 8\/5\/22<\/a>) reported that talk of nuclear weapons proliferated in US newspapers this year\u2014mentioned 5,243 times between February 24 and August 4, 2022\u2014but calls for an end to the nuclear threat were rare. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which went into effect in 2021, was mentioned only 43 times, mostly in letters to the editor or opinion columns.<\/p>\n

There is a reason that threatening war, and threatening violence against another state, are violations of Article 2.4<\/a> of the UN Charter. As Chris Hedges<\/a> says, war itself is the greatest evil. War itself causes the ultimate humanitarian disasters.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Speaking at an event to commemorate the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres (Axios<\/strong>, 9\/26\/22<\/a>) said:<\/p>\n

The era of nuclear blackmail must end. The idea that any country could fight and win a nuclear war is deranged. Any use of a nuclear weapon would incite a humanitarian Armageddon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) observed<\/a>:<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t a card game, the risk of nuclear war is increasing with every threat. Using nuclear weapons or threatening to use nuclear weapons is unacceptable and this must stop now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The number of countries now signed onto the treaty<\/a> to end nuclear arms has risen to 91. That most of the world is not on the side of the US is information that is absent from big journalism\u2019s reporting. The many entreaties from governments across the globe to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine are not on corporate news agendas.<\/p>\n

Choosing planet over war<\/b><\/h3>\n
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\"Common<\/p>\n

Common Dreams<\/strong> (9\/5\/22<\/a>): \u201cThe only realistic alternative to this endless slaughter is a return to peace talks to bring the fighting to an end.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Journalists and peace activists alike have argued that war in general<\/a>, and the war in Ukraine exacerbate the climate crisis<\/a>. The Intercept<\/b> (9\/10\/22<\/a>) documented the destructive power of the $40 billion worth of weapons the US has supplied to Ukraine, now up to $50 billion<\/a>, which is over \u201cfour times the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency during an existential climate crisis of wildfires, droughts, storms and rising sea levels\u201d (Common Dreams<\/b>, 9\/20\/22<\/a>). And World Beyond War estimates that the enormous fossil fuel footprint of the Department of Defense makes it the largest institutional user of oil<\/a> in the world.<\/p>\n

Code Pink\u2019s Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies (Common Dreams<\/b>, 9\/5\/22<\/a>) warned:<\/p>\n

Further escalation should be unthinkable, but so should a long war of endless crushing artillery barrages and brutal urban and trench warfare\u2026. The only realistic alternative to this endless slaughter is a return to peace talks to bring the fighting to an end.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The fact that 30 progressive politicians felt compelled to pull back a letter<\/a> requesting negotiations to end the war in Ukraine the day after it was delivered to President Biden indicates the severity of the lockdown on public debate about war in the US.<\/p>\n

Today US combat troops remain stationed in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Kenya, Somalia, Yemen, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE, Turkey, the Philippines and Cyprus, while Washington conducts counterterrorism operations in 61 additional countries around the world. Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed by US airstrikes<\/a> alone in the last two decades. US wars are still killing and starving people<\/a> around the world.<\/p>\n

To date, there has been no accountability for wars\u2019 failures, or for the trillions of dollars unaccounted for<\/a>, or the atrocities perpetrated <\/a>on the people of the Middle East. The Real News Network<\/b> (9\/14\/21<\/a>) reported that the total \u201ccost of US militarization since 9\/11 is a staggering $21 trillion.\u201d After so much destruction in the Middle East fighting a \u201cwar on terror,\u201d the worldwide number of both terrorist attacks and victims are \u201cthree to five times higher annually than in 2001\u201d (Brookings, 8\/27\/21<\/a>). As the Institute for Policy Studies\u2019 John Cavanagh and Phyllis Bennis (The Nation<\/b>, 9\/10\/21<\/a>) argue, \u201cThat money should have been used for healthcare, climate, jobs and education.\u201d<\/p>\n

Big journalism does not tie military spending to the lack of funding for\u00a0 domestic programs popular with Americans such as Medicare for All, and even left-wing democrats have not found a way to make that case. And the voices for peace are censored by the search algorithms<\/a> that hide the alternative media and the broader dialogue<\/a> that can be found there.<\/p>\n

Caitlin Johnstone (4\/7\/22<\/a>) has argued that \u201cthe US empire has been working to shore up narrative control to strengthen its hegemonic domination of the planet\u201d for some time, and the war in Ukraine has certainly furthered that goal.<\/p>\n

Declassified Australia<\/b> (9\/22\/22<\/a>) detailed a \u201ccovert online propaganda operation\u201d promoting \u201cpro-Western narratives\u201d for two decades, operating mostly out of the United States.\u00a0 Declassified Australia<\/b> (11\/3\/22<\/a>) further revealed that a team of researchers at the University of Adelaide unearthed millions of tweets by fake \u201cbot\u201d accounts pushing disinformation on the Ukraine war. The \u201canti-Russia propaganda campaign\u201d of automated Twitter<\/b> accounts flooded the internet at the start of the war. Of the more than 5 million tweets studied (both bot and non-bot), 90% came from accounts that were pro-Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Every day we move closer<\/b><\/h3>\n
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\"DoD<\/p>\n

\u201cThe big one is coming,\u201d promises the commander of the US nuclear force (DoD News<\/strong>, 11\/3\/22<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Navy Adm. Charles Richard (DoD News<\/strong>, 11\/3\/22<\/a>; AntiWar.com<\/b>, 11\/6\/22<\/a>), the commander of US Strategic Command, stated that so far in Ukraine, it\u2019s been \u201cjust the warmup.\u201d He warned: \u201cThe big one is coming\u2026. We\u2019re going to get tested in ways that we haven\u2019t been tested [in] a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recently the US released the 2022 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR)<\/a>, which reported that \u201carms control has been subdued by military rivalry.\u201d The position document affirmed the US doctrine allowing for the first use of nuclear weapons, and identified one use of nuclear weapons as to \u201cachieve US objectives if deterrence fails.\u201d<\/p>\n

As journalist and war critic Ben Norton put it on Twitter<\/b> (11\/6\/22<\/a>), \u201cThe US empire really is threatening all life on Earth with potential nuclear apocalypse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even in the face of the lack of reasoned nuclear war\u00a0 reporting in corporate media, nearly 60% of Americans<\/a> support diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine \u201cas soon as possible,\u201d even if that means Ukraine having to make concessions to Russia. As Alfred de Zaya, former UN independent expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, tweeted<\/a>:<\/p>\n

If the US were a functioning democracy, US citizens would be asked whether they want billions of dollars to be given to Ukraine for war, or whether they would prefer promoting mediation with a view to a ceasefire and sustainable peace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Corporate media are failing democracy, and failing to disclose our current, stark choice between war on the one hand and life and the planet on the other. They speak in a loud voice that shouts for more war. In doing so, they censor and poison public discourse and position North Americans as targets of propaganda\u2014the denizens of empire\u2014instead of citizen participants in a democracy who determine their own fates.<\/p>\n

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists<\/b> (1\/20\/22<\/a>) warned, \u201cThe doorstep of doom is no place to loiter.\u201d The sane alternative to war\u2014and the humane thing to d0\u2014would be to close the door on war, lock it, and throw away the key.<\/p>\n

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Robin Andersen teaches media studies at Fordham University.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1 Dec 2022 – Corporate media are failing democracy and to disclose our current, stark choice between war, life and the planet. They shout for more war in loud voices. They censor and poison public discourse and position North Americans as targets of propaganda\u2014the denizens of empire\u2014instead of citizen participants in a democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":224998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[867,2642,2914,1268,1126,1050,2462,91,1301,2571,112,278,961,2200,1969,70,1594,481],"class_list":["post-224995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-anglo-america","tag-anti-imperialism","tag-anti-nato","tag-european-union","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-military-industrial-media-complex","tag-nato","tag-nuclear-war","tag-official-lies-and-narratives","tag-pentagon","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-us-empire","tag-us-wars","tag-usa","tag-war-economy","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224995","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=224995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}