{"id":46641,"date":"2014-09-15T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=46641"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:30:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:30:36","slug":"to-recruits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/09\/to-recruits\/","title":{"rendered":"To Recruits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are pawns\u2013<br \/>\ndon\u2019t you understand that?<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a game<br \/>\nand you aren\u2019t worth much,<br \/>\nbut you can be used<br \/>\nPresidents and generals need<br \/>\nobedient pawns.<br \/>\nYou will get deployed, maneuvered,<br \/>\nmaybe sacrificed<br \/>\non a dusty foreign chess board.<br \/>\nIf that makes you feel good\u2013<br \/>\npatriotic, macho, or whatever\u2013<br \/>\ngo for it.<br \/>\nYou\u2019ll come back with some honors,<br \/>\nsouvenirs, ghosts,<br \/>\nor maybe in a box.<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>You are pawns\u2013<br \/>\ndon\u2019t you understand that?<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a game<br \/>\nand you aren\u2019t worth much,<\/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-46641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46641","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=46641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}