{"id":37776,"date":"2014-01-06T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=37776"},"modified":"2015-05-05T22:20:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:20:08","slug":"on-dignity-in-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/01\/on-dignity-in-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"On Dignity in Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>A Rhymed Reflection Dedicated to Litang Cui<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Democracy is not only an organizational \u00a0dream<br \/>\nFor Global Citizenship it is a freedom-fostering necessity<br \/>\nThough challengingly complex democratic goals seem<br \/>\nDemocracy is a politically-elevating system for dignity<br \/>\nDemocracy \u00a0is not only a collective sharing of responsibility<br \/>\nFor a balance between people and power it could be a peaceful song<br \/>\nThough \u00a0democratic systems differ in how they treat the worth of individuality<br \/>\nDemocracy could always inspire people everywhere dignifyingly to get along<\/p>\n<p>______________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Francisco Gomes de Matos is a peace linguist and human rights educator from Recife-Brazil, author,<\/em><i> among others, of the book Nurturing Nonkilling: A Poetic Plantation (2010, Center for Global Nonkilling, Honolulu-Hawai\u2019i). Downloadable at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonkilling.org\"  target=\"_blank\">www.nonkilling.org<\/a><em>. Co-founder: The World Dignity University Initiative.<\/em><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Rhymed Reflection Dedicated to Litang Cui<\/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-37776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37776","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=37776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}