{"id":30659,"date":"2013-06-24T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=30659"},"modified":"2015-05-06T09:00:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T08:00:13","slug":"gulf-war-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/06\/gulf-war-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf War Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With its 750 oil well fires<br \/>\nburning like giant votive candles<br \/>\non a vast sand altar,<br \/>\nKuwait has become a shrine<br \/>\nwhere we can worship our true god<br \/>\nof self-destruction.<br \/>\nSaddam Hussein lit some,<br \/>\nand our valiant priests<br \/>\nin camouflaged cassocks<br \/>\nlit the others,<br \/>\nand the smoke from all of them<br \/>\nmerges in the sky<br \/>\nas a heaven-bound tribute<br \/>\nto our common humanity<br \/>\nand insanity.<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>With its 750 oil well fires<br \/>\nburning like giant votive candles<br \/>\non a vast sand altar,<\/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-30659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30659","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=30659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}