{"id":46167,"date":"2014-08-18T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=46167"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:30:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:30:44","slug":"humankind-improving-concepts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/08\/humankind-improving-concepts\/","title":{"rendered":"Humankind-Improving Concepts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A \u00a0Rhymed Reflection<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When Nonkilling Peace becomes a global human power<br \/>\nEveryday living will change into a most beautiful flower<\/p>\n<p>When cooperation becomes a global human quality<br \/>\nIn East and West, human relations will rise in dignity<\/p>\n<p>When decency inspires human global education<br \/>\nEthics will climb to the highest humanizing elevation<\/p>\n<p>_______________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Francisco Gomes de Matos, Ph.D. is an applied peace linguist from Recife, Brazil. He has degrees in Languages, Law, and Linguistics. He is Professor Emeritus at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco where he is active in the Dom H\u00e9lder Camara Human Rights Commission. He is one of the pioneers in Linguistic Rights (author of 1984 <\/em>Plea for a Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights)<em> and in the emerging area of Peace Linguistics. Currently he is President of the Board, Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Brasil Am\u00e9rica (www.abaweb.org). <\/em><em>He can be reached at fcardosogomesdematos@gmail.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A  Rhymed Reflection<\/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-46167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46167","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=46167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}