{"id":36996,"date":"2014-01-06T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=36996"},"modified":"2015-05-05T22:20:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:20:08","slug":"anti-war-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/01\/anti-war-demonstration\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-War Demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of going to Baghdad<br \/>\nI strolled four blocks<br \/>\nto a convenient anti-war demonstration<br \/>\nwith my dachshund, Ernie.<br \/>\nHonking cars, candles, posters, drumming, chants\u2026<br \/>\nand other dogs,<br \/>\nmost with scant understanding<br \/>\nof what&#8217;s at stake.<br \/>\nMuch sniffing, but no fighting,<br \/>\neven though the breeds varied widely.<br \/>\nSeveral small children petted Ernie,<br \/>\nand no bombs fell on us.<br \/>\nI passed out my leaflets<br \/>\nand collected a dozen<br \/>\nwhich I read dutifully.<br \/>\nOne group wants to abolish Western civilization&#8211;<br \/>\nI thought we already did that.<br \/>\nAs instructed, tomorrow I&#8217;ll call the President<br \/>\nand, since words fail me these days,<br \/>\nErnie and I will just howl at him.<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>Instead of going to Baghdad<br \/>\nI strolled four blocks<br \/>\nto a convenient anti-war demonstration<\/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-36996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36996","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=36996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}