{"id":35572,"date":"2013-11-11T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=35572"},"modified":"2015-05-05T22:21:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:21:13","slug":"patriot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/11\/patriot\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never guessed that my friend Howard<br \/>\nwould turn out to be a coward.<br \/>\nBoth of us were raised to fight<br \/>\nwhether we were wrong or right.<br \/>\nMostly we were right, we knew,<br \/>\nand fighting is what brave men do.<br \/>\n&#8220;I don&#8217;t trust commies,&#8221; he once said,<br \/>\n&#8220;except the ones I&#8217;m sure are dead.&#8221;<br \/>\nThus it was a big surprise<br \/>\nwhen I came to realize<br \/>\nthat Howard had begun to doubt<br \/>\nand wasn&#8217;t always sure about<br \/>\nthe verities that we were taught<br \/>\nregarding wars our country fought.<br \/>\nHe had always served our cause,<br \/>\nand never took time out to pause<br \/>\nand ask himself if someday peace<br \/>\nwould ever make the killing cease.<br \/>\nSo what turned Howard&#8217;s head around\u2014<br \/>\nhow can it be that he has found<br \/>\nsome fault with what we both fought for<br \/>\nand lost his shining faith in war?<br \/>\nI do not know and will not ask\u2014<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll carry out my patriot&#8217;s task.<br \/>\nIf he won&#8217;t fight at least I will.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll find more enemies to kill,<br \/>\nand rid the world of all that&#8217;s bad.<br \/>\nThe only thing that makes me sad,<br \/>\nthe part that I&#8217;ll find hard to do,<br \/>\nis killing off the Howards too.<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>I never guessed that my friend Howard<br \/>\nwould turn out to be a coward.<\/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-35572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35572","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=35572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}