{"id":35576,"date":"2013-11-25T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=35576"},"modified":"2015-05-05T22:21:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:21:11","slug":"turkey-shoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/11\/turkey-shoot\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Shoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some say turkeys are dumb birds<br \/>\nand get what they deserve.<br \/>\nAs Major Kitchener showed us<br \/>\nlong before Stormin&#8217; Norman,<br \/>\nwith the right equipment<br \/>\nit&#8217;s easy to kill Arabs.<br \/>\nLook at it from a moral viewpoint:<br \/>\nSins must be punished,<br \/>\nespecially those of others,<br \/>\nand most especially the eighth\u2014<br \/>\nchoosing the wrong side.<br \/>\nSo the feathers flew,<br \/>\nand turkey blood too.<br \/>\nThis Thanksgiving<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll put an American flag<br \/>\non top of my turkey<br \/>\nand say my prayer of thanks<br \/>\nthat I&#8217;m not one of those<br \/>\nwho got roasted<br \/>\non the sandy road to<br \/>\nBaghdad.<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>Some say turkeys are dumb birds<br \/>\nand get what they deserve.<\/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-35576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35576","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=35576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}