{"id":32422,"date":"2013-08-05T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=32422"},"modified":"2015-05-06T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T08:00:00","slug":"what-is-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/08\/what-is-war\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is War?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is war, and whom shall we ask?<br \/>\nClausewitz gave his bland definition,<br \/>\n\u201cnothing but the continuation<br \/>\nof politics by other means,\u201d<br \/>\nbut he did not then bleed.<br \/>\nThe survivors, some of whom did bleed,<br \/>\nand who saw horrors,<br \/>\ndid not die,<br \/>\nso even they only know part of it.<br \/>\nGenerals, soldiers, medics, politicians, journalists,<br \/>\nhistorians, women, children, looters\u2014<br \/>\nwhoever survived does not know all of war.<br \/>\nOnly those who lived their final seconds<br \/>\nimmersed in it,<br \/>\nwhose consciousness<br \/>\nto the very end<br \/>\nwas steeped in the cauldron,<br \/>\ngrasped the whole truth,<br \/>\nand they aren\u2019t telling.<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\" >www.tomgreening.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is war, and whom shall we ask?<br \/>\nClausewitz gave his bland definition,<br \/>\n\u201cnothing but the continuation<br \/>\nof politics by other means,\u201d<br \/>\nbut he did not then bleed.<\/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-32422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32422","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=32422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}