{"id":71762,"date":"2016-04-11T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=71762"},"modified":"2016-04-10T16:58:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T15:58:44","slug":"armageddon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/04\/armageddon\/","title":{"rendered":"Armageddon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot feel peace while<br \/>\ngenocidal wars kill<br \/>\ninnocent children,<br \/>\nhelpless men and women<br \/>\nwith the cruel weapons of science<\/p>\n<p>I will not enjoy a guiltless life,<br \/>\nindifferent to the drama of immigrants,<br \/>\nas they flee in terror<br \/>\nthe appalling barbarism<br \/>\nof imposed fanaticism.<\/p>\n<p>My light is in darkness<br \/>\nwhen I suffer<br \/>\nMen are wise and free<br \/>\nbut enslaved by science,<br \/>\ncreator of frightening works<br \/>\nof efficient killing.<\/p>\n<p>There is the threat of extinction<br \/>\nin human genes<br \/>\nwhere even the light of light<br \/>\nshouts out darkness.<br \/>\n_________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Jose Maria Lopera is a Spanish poet of peace and harmony.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Translated by Ruth Petersen.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot feel peace while<br \/>\ngenocidal wars kill<br \/>\ninnocent children,<br \/>\nhelpless men and women<br \/>\nwith the cruel weapons of science<\/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-71762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71762","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=71762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}