{"id":69689,"date":"2016-02-15T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=69689"},"modified":"2016-02-09T17:17:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T17:17:56","slug":"waiting-for-rainbows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/02\/waiting-for-rainbows\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for Rainbows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/richard-falk.jpeg\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-50432\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-50432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/richard-falk.jpeg\" alt=\"richard falk\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Below is the cover of my recently published book of poems that can be obtained from Amazon. I have received some inquiries, and although I have been writing poems for the past 60 years, I have never gathered the courage to publish them in one place before. I consider their themes and interrelations to be a kind of inner memoir that is, perhaps more selective and arbitrary than conventional prose memoirs, but likely more truthful and transparent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/waiting-for-rainbows-richard-falk.jpg\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-69690\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69690\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/waiting-for-rainbows-richard-falk.jpg\" alt=\"waiting for rainbows richard falk\" width=\"490\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/waiting-for-rainbows-richard-falk.jpg 490w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/waiting-for-rainbows-richard-falk-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Richard Falk is a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network<\/a>, an international relations scholar, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, author, co-author or editor of 40 books, and a speaker and activist on world affairs.\u00a0In 2008, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Council\" >United Nations Human Rights Council<\/a> (UNHRC) appointed Falk to a six-year term as a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations_Special_Rapporteur\" >United Nations Special Rapporteur<\/a> on &#8220;the situation of human rights in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palestinian_territories\" >Palestinian territories<\/a> occupied since 1967.&#8221; Since 2002 he has lived in Santa Barbara, California, and taught at the local campus of the University of California in Global and International Studies, and since 2005 chaired the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. His most recent book is <\/em>Achieving Human Rights<em> (2009).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/richardfalk.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/08\/waiting-for-rainbows\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 richardfalk.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is the cover of my recently published book of poems that can be obtained from Amazon. I have received some inquiries, and although I have been writing poems for the past 60 years, I have never gathered the courage to publish them in one place before. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69689","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=69689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}