{"id":65260,"date":"2015-10-19T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=65260"},"modified":"2015-10-19T13:25:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T12:25:08","slug":"to-johan-galtung-on-his-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/10\/to-johan-galtung-on-his-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"To Johan Galtung on His Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/pic-istanbul.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-65396\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/pic-istanbul-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"pic istanbul\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/pic-istanbul-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/pic-istanbul.jpg 582w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Peacebuilders\/educators\/makers everywhere let\u2019s rejoice<br \/>\nToday let\u2019s acknowledge the privilege of hearing Johan Galtung\u2019s voice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On October 24, 85 blessed years old he will be<br \/>\nHe is an extraordinary example for all peace loving persons and organizations to see.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">His lectures, workshops, and publications Humankind dignify<br \/>\nMay he keep up his inspiring work at TRANSCEND, helping a sustainable peace edify.<br \/>\n______________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><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 (<a href=\"www.abaweb.org\">www.abaweb.org<\/a>). <\/em><em>He can be reached at <a href=\"fcardosogomesdematos@gmail.com\">fcardosogomesdematos@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peacebuilders\/educators\/makers everywhere let\u2019s rejoice<br \/>\nToday let\u2019s acknowledge the privilege of hearing Johan Galtung\u2019s voice.<br \/>\nOn October 24, 85 blessed years old he will be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65260","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=65260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}