{"id":248805,"date":"2023-11-27T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=248805"},"modified":"2023-11-21T04:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T04:22:25","slug":"my-dear-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/11\/my-dear-other\/","title":{"rendered":"My Dear Other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loving the other through mutualities of hurt,<br \/>\nloving the other without understanding the other,<br \/>\ngroping in darkness to find the other,<br \/>\nblundering towards and beyond the other,<br \/>\nfleeing at the sight of the other,<br \/>\nescaping from exile to greet the other,<br \/>\nyearning for and recoiling from the other,<br \/>\ntwo planets swinging in cross-orbit around the sun of our love,<br \/>\na sudden glimpse and then gone<br \/>\nbut ever returning,<br \/>\nalways affirming,<br \/>\nYes, this is our way,<br \/>\nthere can be no other.<\/p>\n<p>____________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/William-T.-Hathaway-e1656471342840.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-214556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/William-T.-Hathaway-e1656471342840.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a>William T. Hathaway\u2019s books won him a Rinehart Foundation Award and a Fulbright professorship in creative writing. <\/em><em>His peace novel,<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Summer-Snow-William-T-Hathaway\/dp\/097384423X\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3FWNBISVC4BL2&amp;keywords=summer+snow+hathaway&amp;qid=1664366195&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=summer+snow+hathaway%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C163&amp;sr=1-1\" >Summer Snow<\/a>, <em>is the story of an U.S. warrior falling in love with a Sufi Muslim and learning from her that higher consciousness is more effective than violence.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loving the other through mutualities of hurt,<br \/>\nloving the other without understanding the other,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":108039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-248805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248805","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=248805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248806,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248805\/revisions\/248806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}