{"id":27734,"date":"2013-04-15T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=27734"},"modified":"2015-05-06T12:53:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T11:53:15","slug":"waiting-for-war-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/04\/waiting-for-war-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for War, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sit on the edge of my chair,<br \/>\nhold my breath,<br \/>\nwait, pray, fret,<br \/>\ncower and rant.<br \/>\nHuman history is proceeding apace<br \/>\nand the species will probably survive<br \/>\nanother round of its grotesque evolution.<br \/>\nWar has become an equal opportunity event<br \/>\nwith women and children, babes and the aged,<br \/>\njust as welcome as soldiers to the slaughter.<br \/>\nMystics see beyond all this<br \/>\nand find peace.<br \/>\nI stumble around in despair<br \/>\nfearful that I&#8217;ll step on a mine,<br \/>\nand explode into awareness<br \/>\nthat this is actually happening<br \/>\nagain.<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>I sit on the edge of my chair,<br \/>\nhold my breath,<br \/>\nwait, pray, fret,<br \/>\ncower and rant.<\/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-27734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27734","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=27734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}