{"id":57921,"date":"2015-08-03T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=57921"},"modified":"2015-08-03T09:05:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T08:05:22","slug":"wake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/08\/wake-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Wake Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_49462\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/david_krieger.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49462\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49462\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/david_krieger.jpg\" alt=\"David Krieger\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-49462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Krieger<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The alarm is sounding.<br \/>\nCan you hear it?<\/p>\n<p>Can you hear the bells<br \/>\nof Nagasaki<br \/>\nringing out for peace?<\/p>\n<p>Can you feel the heartbeat<br \/>\nof Hiroshima<br \/>\npulsing out for life?<\/p>\n<p>The survivors of Hiroshima<br \/>\nand Nagasaki<br \/>\nare growing older.<\/p>\n<p>Their message is clear:<br \/>\nNever again!<\/p>\n<p>Wake up!<br \/>\nNow, before the feathered arrow<br \/>\nis placed into the bow.<\/p>\n<p>Now, before the string<br \/>\nof the bow is pulled taut,<br \/>\nthe arrow poised for flight.<\/p>\n<p>Now, before the arrow is let loose,<br \/>\nbefore it flies across oceans<br \/>\nand continents.<\/p>\n<p>Now, before we are engulfed in flames,<br \/>\nwhile there is still time, while we still can,<br \/>\nWake up!<br \/>\n________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>David Krieger is President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tpu\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a>. He<\/em><em> has a new collection of poems entitled <\/em>Awake!<em>\u00a0 For more visit the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation website: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wagingpeace.org\" >www.wagingpeace.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The alarm is sounding.<br \/>\nCan you hear it?<\/p>\n<p>Can you hear the bells<br \/>\nof Nagasaki<br \/>\nringing out for peace?<\/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-57921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57921","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=57921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}