{"id":23730,"date":"2012-12-10T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=23730"},"modified":"2012-12-04T19:02:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T19:02:01","slug":"i-love-my-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/12\/i-love-my-family\/","title":{"rendered":"I love my Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of galaxies, stars, planets<br \/>\nIs an earth hamlet<br \/>\nWhere lives a small family<br \/>\nOf humans<br \/>\nAnd this is my family<br \/>\nOf 6 billion members<br \/>\nThey are, European, Americans<br \/>\nAsian, African, Australians,<br \/>\nThey are Muslims, Jews, Christians<br \/>\nThey are Hindus, Budhs, Jains<br \/>\nBaha\u2019is, Sikhs, Rastafarians,<br \/>\nAnd other believers<br \/>\nAnd the nonbelievers<br \/>\nThey all are my family<br \/>\nAnd I love my family<\/p>\n<p>Whatever region they belong to, No matter<br \/>\nThey are black or white, No matter<br \/>\nThey are rich or poor, No matter<br \/>\nThey are male or female, No matter<br \/>\nWhether they hate me, or love, No matter<br \/>\nThey are little or tall, No matter<br \/>\nBut I love them all<\/p>\n<p>I love all religions<br \/>\nBecause they have one vision<br \/>\nThe goodness<br \/>\nAnd<br \/>\nOnly goodness<br \/>\nBut sometimes this goodness<br \/>\nMakes me very sad<br \/>\nWhen it clashes and kills<br \/>\nMembers of my family<br \/>\n__________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Dr. M. Ashaq Raza: Former Director of Research at Eritrean Institute of Technology (EIT), State of Eritrea, currently an academician in Department of Higher Education, Govt of Jammu and Kashmir (India). Founder \u201cAttitude Change International\u201d, a non-Profit Peace NGO engaged in sustainable peace and development. An all time volunteer for greater good, and associated with various national and international development organizations especially Red Cross, Rotary International, Amnesty International and UN.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of galaxies, stars, planets<br \/>\nIs an earth hamlet<br \/>\nWhere lives a small family<br \/>\nOf humans<\/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-23730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23730","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=23730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}