{"id":270609,"date":"2024-08-05T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=270609"},"modified":"2024-07-30T05:02:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T04:02:15","slug":"if-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/08\/if-only\/","title":{"rendered":"If Only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Violence and killing<br \/>\nOriginating multifariously<br \/>\nIn lethal minds<br \/>\nOr harmful structures<br \/>\nAided and abetted by<br \/>\nA weaponized world<br \/>\nBringing us down<br \/>\nDown<br \/>\nRather than raising us up<\/p>\n<p>Destroying and deconstructing<br \/>\nRather than enabling and regenerating<\/p>\n<p>If only we committed to disarming<br \/>\nCommitted to nonkilling<br \/>\nCommitted to peace<\/p>\n<p><em>If only<\/em> we prioritized health, education, and welfare<br \/>\nCollaboration and dialogue<br \/>\nWe&#8217;d have a new lease<br \/>\nOn life<\/p>\n<p>Problems we&#8217;d solve harmoniously<br \/>\nInequalities we&#8217;d reduce<br \/>\nInjustices we&#8217;d heal and prevent<br \/>\nWe&#8217;d be good to the environment<br \/>\nUnsustainable practices we&#8217;d curtail<br \/>\nWellbeing would prevail<br \/>\nAll would prosper<br \/>\nIF ONLY we&#8217;d commit!<br \/>\n____________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Jocelyn-Wright-e1690867022710.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-240725\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Jocelyn-Wright-e1690867022710.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a>Jocelyn Wright is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Mokpo National University, South Korea, where she has served for over 15 years. Her main areas of\u00a0academic\u00a0interest are peace linguistics, peace literature, and peace\u00a0language\u00a0education. Email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jocelynmnu@yahoo.com\">jocelynmnu@yahoo.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violence and killing<br \/>\nOriginating multifariously<br \/>\nIn lethal minds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":234364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868,126],"class_list":["post-270609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270609","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=270609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270610,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270609\/revisions\/270610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}