{"id":40828,"date":"2014-04-07T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=40828"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:35:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:35:07","slug":"why-i-am-not-going-to-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/04\/why-i-am-not-going-to-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Am Not Going to Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not going to Iraq<br \/>\nbecause I might see<br \/>\na ten year-old girl get her face blown off<br \/>\nand then I&#8217;d come back to the United States<br \/>\nand try to kill George Bush<br \/>\nwith my bare hands,<br \/>\nand that could get me in trouble.<br \/>\nI am not going to Iraq<br \/>\nbecause I am not a brave Quaker<br \/>\nand don&#8217;t want to end up<br \/>\nlike Tom Fox.<br \/>\nI am not going to Iraq<br \/>\nbecause I don&#8217;t have to<br \/>\nand there are too many sadists and suckers<br \/>\nwho go willingly.<br \/>\nI am not going to Iraq<br \/>\nbecause, fragile though my sense of masculinity may be,<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t want to puff it up<br \/>\nat the expense of frightened old women.<br \/>\nI am not going now,<br \/>\nbut I hope that someday I will go to Iraq<br \/>\nto ask forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________<\/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 am not going to Iraq<br \/>\nbecause I might see<br \/>\na ten year-old girl get her face blown off<\/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-40828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40828","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=40828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}