{"id":34094,"date":"2013-09-30T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=34094"},"modified":"2015-05-06T08:59:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T07:59:00","slug":"you-can-make-peace-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/09\/you-can-make-peace-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Make Peace in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you can make peace in the heart<br \/>\nYou can make peace in the home<\/p>\n<p>If you can make peace in the home<br \/>\nYou can make peace between neighbours<\/p>\n<p>If you can make peace between neighbours<br \/>\nYou can make peace in the cities<\/p>\n<p>If you can make peace in the cities<br \/>\nYou can make peace in the nations<\/p>\n<p>If you can make peace in the nations<br \/>\nYou can make peace in the world<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><i>N.B: Written in response to a beautiful peace prayer nicely composed by, and of course as a tribute to, Lao Tzu (<\/i><\/b><b><i>Lao-Tse), a <b><i>Chinese<\/i><\/b> philosopher (<b><i>6th Century B.C.<\/i><\/b>) that still needs to reach the hearts of everybody. <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i>If there is to be peace in the world,<br \/>\nThere must be peace in the nations.<\/p>\n<p>If there is to be peace in the nations,<br \/>\nThere must be peace in the cities.<\/p>\n<p>If there is to be peace in the cities,<br \/>\nThere must be peace between neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>If there is to be peace between neighbors,<br \/>\nThere must be peace in the home.<\/p>\n<p>If there is to be peace in the home,<br \/>\nThere must be peace in the heart.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>&#8211; &#8211;<\/i><\/b><b><i> Lao Tzu<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>__________________________<\/p>\n<p><i>Dr. M. Ashaq Raza is a peace worker and human rights activist based in Jammu, India.<\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there is to be peace in the world,<br \/>\nThere must be peace in the nations.<br \/>\nIf there is to be peace in the nations,<br \/>\nThere must be peace in the cities.<\/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-34094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34094","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=34094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}