{"id":226576,"date":"2023-01-02T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=226576"},"modified":"2023-01-02T07:08:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T07:08:20","slug":"natos-peace-delivery-for-whom-the-bell-tolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/01\/natos-peace-delivery-for-whom-the-bell-tolls\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO\u2019s Peace Delivery&#8211;For Whom the Bell Tolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>\u201c<\/em><em>Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_224388\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/nato-peace-cartoon.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-224388\" class=\"wp-image-224388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/nato-peace-cartoon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/nato-peace-cartoon.png 720w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/nato-peace-cartoon-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-224388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NATO Peace Delivery<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>For Whom the Bell Tolls<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>By John Donne<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">No man is an island,<br \/>\nEntire of itself.<br \/>\nEach is a piece of the continent,<br \/>\nA part of the main.<br \/>\nIf a clod be washed away by the sea,<br \/>\nEurope is the less.<br \/>\nAs well as if a promontory were.<br \/>\nAs well as if a manor of thine own<br \/>\nOr of thine friend&#8217;s were.<br \/>\nEach man&#8217;s death diminishes me,<br \/>\nFor I am involved in mankind.<br \/>\nTherefore, send not to know<br \/>\nFor whom the bell tolls,<br \/>\nIt tolls for thee.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0_______________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>This poem is in the public domain.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/John_Donne_by_Isaac_Oliver-scaled.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-226597 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/John_Donne_by_Isaac_Oliver-scaled-e1672643175841.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a>John Donne was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England. Under royal patronage, he was made Dean of St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral in London. He is considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNever send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":224388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[2914,91,2099,868],"class_list":["post-226576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-anti-nato","tag-nato","tag-peace-art","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226576","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=226576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}