{"id":70635,"date":"2016-03-07T14:02:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T14:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=70635"},"modified":"2016-03-07T14:03:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T14:03:52","slug":"message-to-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/03\/message-to-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Message to Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/david_krieger.jpg\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-49462\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft 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>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You are not required<br \/>\nto kill on command, to wear<br \/>\na uniform, to camouflage yourself,<br \/>\nto place medals on your chest, to check<br \/>\nyour conscience at the door, to march<br \/>\nin unison, to bear the burden of the body count.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You are not required<br \/>\nto pledge allegiance to the flag, to sing<br \/>\npatriotic songs, to distort history,<br \/>\nto believe lies, to support leaders when<br \/>\nthey are wrong, to turn a blind eye<br \/>\nto violence, or to be cheerleaders for war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You are required<br \/>\nto love, to live with compassion, to be kinder<br \/>\nthan necessary and to seek the truth<br \/>\nin the time allotted to you.<\/p>\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>Wake Up<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<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wagingpeace.org\/message-to-youth\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 wagingpeace.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are not required<br \/>\nto kill on command, to wear<br \/>\na uniform, to camouflage yourself,<br \/>\nto place medals on your chest, <\/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-70635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70635","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=70635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}