{"id":68467,"date":"2016-01-04T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=68467"},"modified":"2016-01-05T09:28:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T09:28:35","slug":"year-of-hope-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/01\/year-of-hope-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Year of Hope 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ada-aharoni.jpg\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-68571\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-68571\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ada-aharoni-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ada aharoni\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite our wars, despite our tears,<br \/>\nDespite our furtive fears<br \/>\nWe welcome the smiling year of HOPE.<\/p>\n<p>The power of women and children for peace is rising,<br \/>\nDemocracy and the Internet are spreading,<br \/>\nGlobal poverty has been cut in half &#8211;<br \/>\nNever have ordinary people, like you and me,<br \/>\nHad more power to face challenges<\/p>\n<p>And to decide our own fate of Nonkilling.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re poised on the edge between<br \/>\nOur oldest fears of terror and\u00a0 war<br \/>\nAnd our deepest dreams of peace.<\/p>\n<p>We face a choice &#8211; to rise to this moment in time<br \/>\nAnd be the PEACE we want to see &#8211;<br \/>\nIt all depends on us, for we peace- lovers<br \/>\nAre the largest global community!<\/p>\n<p>War is not democratic, and we have to catch it<br \/>\nBy its ugly ears and drown it into<br \/>\nThe vast ocean of violent history forever.<\/p>\n<p>We peace-lovers are the parents of hope<br \/>\nAnd hope is the game changer in life.<br \/>\nHope is the wing on which we rise<br \/>\nIt is the map of how and where to fly<br \/>\nTo throw Terror and War from the top of the cliff<br \/>\nInto the historical stormy ocean.<\/p>\n<p>In this New Year, let&#8217;s hurry to joyfully embrace<br \/>\nThe golden sunbeam of Hope gladly waltzing<br \/>\nTo the music of a moving Chopin Waltz<br \/>\nToward twinkling Global Peace.<br \/>\n____________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Ada Aharoni is founder of <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/iflac.wordpress.com\/\" >The International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace-IFLAC<\/a><em>. She is<\/em> <em>an Egyptian-born Israeli poet, writer, lecturer and peace researcher.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The power of women and children for peace is rising,<br \/>\nDemocracy and the Internet are spreading,<br \/>\nGlobal poverty has been cut in half &#8211;<br \/>\nNever have ordinary people, like you and me,<br \/>\nHad more power to face challenges<br \/>\nAnd to decide our own fate of Nonkilling. <\/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-68467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68467","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=68467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}