{"id":26905,"date":"2013-03-25T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=26905"},"modified":"2013-04-08T20:43:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T19:43:07","slug":"war-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/03\/war-games\/","title":{"rendered":"War Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children get killed in wars,<br \/>\nwhich is not good for them.<br \/>\nThey should be tickled<br \/>\nand made to laugh,<br \/>\nnot killed or made to cry.<br \/>\nI have seen children with rifles<br \/>\ntaller than themselves,<br \/>\nvery sober looking children<br \/>\nwith a sense of responsibility<br \/>\ntoward their country.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d rather they be irresponsible,<br \/>\nmaking snow forts and throwing snowballs<br \/>\nlike we did.<br \/>\nIs that training for war?<br \/>\nI hope not. I hope it is<br \/>\njust playing in the snow.<br \/>\nIn summer we rode our bicycles fast<br \/>\nover rough dirt roads<br \/>\nfleeing and attacking imaged enemies.<br \/>\nWe survived, but stunts like that<br \/>\ninspired my braver cousin Raj,<br \/>\nwho became a fighter pilot<br \/>\nand did not.<br \/>\n__________________________<\/p>\n<p><em><b>Tom Greening:<\/b> \u201cI engage in five professional activities:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Faculty Member at Saybrook University<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Private Practice of Psychotherapy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Clinical Professor of Psychology, UCLA<\/em><br \/>\n<em>International Editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Writing (Poetry).\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomgreening.com\/c_writer.php\" >http:\/\/www.tomgreening.com\/c_writer.php#<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children get killed in wars,<br \/>\nwhich is not good for them.<br \/>\nThey should be tickled<br \/>\nand made to laugh,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-militarism","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26905","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=26905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}