{"id":42842,"date":"2014-05-19T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=42842"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:34:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:34:59","slug":"pleader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/05\/pleader\/","title":{"rendered":"Pleader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The poet Wilfred Owen was killed on the Hindenburg Line in World War I a week before the Armistice. He wrote: \u201cI came out in order to help these boys\u2014directly by leading them as well as an officer can; indirectly, by watching their sufferings that I may speak of them as well as a pleader can.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I, too, am a pleader,<br \/>\nbut insane, groveling,<br \/>\ninarticulate, nearly mute or shrieking,<br \/>\na howling lunatic, mad preacher,<br \/>\nstammering, beseeching,<br \/>\ncowardly begging them<br \/>\nto stop wars.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders, brave and responsible men,<br \/>\npatriots, courageous warriors<br \/>\nwill not listen to me,<br \/>\nand should not,<br \/>\nbecause I am terrified, useless.<br \/>\nI go on and on, babbling<br \/>\nfor centuries, ignorant<br \/>\nof what history was<br \/>\nand must be.<\/p>\n<p>All I have achieved<br \/>\nis a futile wail<br \/>\ndrowned out by explosions<br \/>\nand the silence<br \/>\nof the dead.<br \/>\n_____________________________<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Tom Greening:<\/strong> \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, too, am a pleader,<br \/>\nbut insane, groveling,<br \/>\ninarticulate, nearly mute or shrieking,<\/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-42842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42842","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=42842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}