{"id":6095,"date":"2010-06-28T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T22:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=6095"},"modified":"2010-06-26T18:47:01","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T16:47:01","slug":"icons-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/06\/icons-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Icons, of Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to tell you a story about The Pieces of Peace in The United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>It is a story that only I know how to tell and it is meant only for peacemakers:<\/p>\n<p>Once,<br \/>\njust once,<br \/>\nupon a time,<\/p>\n<p>only 3,264 or just 3,262 years ago, the great, formidable and fantastic Pharaoh Ramses II of the Egyptians and the mighty , magnificent and \u00a0mysterious Emperor Hattusilis of the Hittites gave their courage and honor in artisan endeavor to create the First Peace Treaty of Our Story. We are now privileged, during the 50th Anniversary of the UN, to view a marvelous larger than life replica of their text won from tragic wars 33 centuries ago. \u00a0We honor our own Security Council by juxtaposing it by this codex. \u00a0I know of no icon more challenging than this cold copper message and when I enter these sacred precincts I practice my prayers before this too disregarded memento.<\/p>\n<p>In close view of the first icon I treasure, \u00a0I wished to share with you my awe for what I believe is Picasso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to tell you a story about The Pieces of Peace in The United Nations.<br \/>\nIt is a story that only I know how to tell and it is meant only for peacemakers:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095","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=6095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}