{"id":43273,"date":"2014-06-02T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=43273"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:33:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:33:47","slug":"prepackaged-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/06\/prepackaged-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepackaged Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No longer staid and antiquated,<br \/>\nmy thinking now is automated.<br \/>\nWhy dream up ideas by myself<br \/>\nwhen I can get them off the shelf?<br \/>\nI read the papers, watch the news,<br \/>\nand thus I get well-packaged views.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s always some slick TV show<br \/>\nto tell me what I need to know.<br \/>\nThose guys at Fox are really cool&#8211;<br \/>\nthey guide me so I&#8217;m not a fool,<br \/>\nand thank God for talk radio<br \/>\nto help me learn who&#8217;s friend and foe.<br \/>\nI love to watch how history&#8217;s made,<br \/>\nhow we decide whom to invade.<br \/>\nIn decades hence when peace will reign<br \/>\nperhaps at leisure I will deign<br \/>\nto try some thinking on my own,<br \/>\nbut now the effort makes me groan.<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>No longer staid and antiquated,<br \/>\nmy thinking now is automated.<br \/>\nWhy dream up ideas by myself<br \/>\nwhen I can get them off the shelf?<\/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-43273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43273","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=43273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}