{"id":31762,"date":"2013-07-15T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=31762"},"modified":"2015-05-06T09:00:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T08:00:06","slug":"endless-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/07\/endless-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Endless War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a war has just begun<br \/>\nit can seem like lots of fun\u2014<br \/>\nhunting down the evil prey,<br \/>\nkilling bad guys every day.<br \/>\nHere\u2019s a sport for manly men,<br \/>\nand for women now and then.<br \/>\nAs it grinds on endlessly<br \/>\neven hawks may skeptically<br \/>\nwonder if it\u2019s worth the cost,<br \/>\nor if sanity\u2019s been lost.<br \/>\nOnce the flow of blood is launched<br \/>\nseldom can it soon be staunched.<br \/>\nSport turns tragic, players die,<br \/>\neven heroes dare ask why.<br \/>\nOne war ends, some time goes by;<br \/>\njust be patient, here is why:<br \/>\nWhen you think with war we\u2019re done<br \/>\nsomeone starts another one.<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#\" >tomgreening.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a war has just begun<br \/>\nit can seem like lots of fun\u2014<br \/>\nhunting down the evil prey,<br \/>\nkilling bad guys every day.<\/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-31762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31762","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=31762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}