{"id":26866,"date":"2013-03-25T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=26866"},"modified":"2013-03-21T15:46:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T15:46:33","slug":"it-is-a-matter-of-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/03\/it-is-a-matter-of-faces\/","title":{"rendered":"It Is a Matter of Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">It is useless to pour water<br \/>\nTo a downward pot<br \/>\nThough it is necessarily critical<br \/>\nIn a drought of thirst<\/p>\n<p>Person in pretence of sleep<br \/>\nIt is difficult to wake up<br \/>\nThough it is necessarily critical<br \/>\nIn a moment of danger<\/p>\n<p>Adorable words accent and gestures<br \/>\nFor the means of democracy<br \/>\nIt is a witch of crazy<br \/>\nThough it is necessarily critical<br \/>\nIn a state of power egoism<\/p>\n<p>Forging smirking before the people<br \/>\nTo conciliate hearts for votes and power<br \/>\nIt is matter of fact today<br \/>\nThough it is necessarily critical<br \/>\nIn a reflection before the mirror<\/p>\n<p>Down to earth deconstruction<br \/>\nTo purify the heart and mind<br \/>\nIt is a matter of duty the day<br \/>\nThough it is necessarily critical<br \/>\nIn the age of e- enlightenment<br \/>\n___________________________<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>Udaya R. Tennakoon \u2013 Poet\/ Diaspora Writer, Peace and Human Rights Activist. Student at the World Peace Academy, University of Basel, Switzerland.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is useless to pour water<br \/>\nTo a downward pot<br \/>\nThough it is necessarily critical<br \/>\nIn a drought of thirst . . .<\/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-26866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26866","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=26866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}