{"id":61947,"date":"2015-08-10T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=61947"},"modified":"2015-08-04T17:30:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T16:30:20","slug":"in-hiroshima-peace-memorial-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/08\/in-hiroshima-peace-memorial-park\/","title":{"rendered":"In Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park"},"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 style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0The heat of summer is oppressive.<br \/>\nChildren pass by in groups, chattering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They wear school outfits \u2013<br \/>\nblack pants or skirts and white shirts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Some groups are wearing yellow caps.<br \/>\nThey stop at Sadako\u2019s statue and,<br \/>\nin lilting voices, sing songs with words<br \/>\nI cannot understand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When they finish their songs, they bow,<br \/>\npaying tribute to one of their own, Sadako,<br \/>\nforever young, a child of the bomb.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Though nearly seven decades have passed,<br \/>\nI feel guilty for what my country did here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To whom can I apologize? To whom must<br \/>\nI apologize? It doesn\u2019t matter.<br \/>\nThey have already forgiven, long ago.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62080\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Atomic-Plague-mushroom-cloud-nuclear-weapon-bomb-military-wmd-device.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62080\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Atomic-Plague-mushroom-cloud-nuclear-weapon-bomb-military-wmd-device-300x144.jpg\" alt=\"Copyright \u00a9 Shutterstock. All Rights Reserved\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Atomic-Plague-mushroom-cloud-nuclear-weapon-bomb-military-wmd-device-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Atomic-Plague-mushroom-cloud-nuclear-weapon-bomb-military-wmd-device.jpg 938w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Copyright \u00a9 Shutterstock. All Rights Reserved<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">_________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><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 heat of summer is oppressive.<br \/>\nChildren pass by in groups, chattering.<\/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-61947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61947","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=61947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}