{"id":73280,"date":"2016-05-09T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=73280"},"modified":"2016-05-08T16:49:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T15:49:59","slug":"take-three-gifts-on-your-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/05\/take-three-gifts-on-your-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Three Gifts on Your Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/david_krieger.jpg\" ><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>Mr. President,<\/p>\n<p>The word is out.<\/p>\n<p>You will visit Hiroshima in May.<\/p>\n<p>In Hiroshima, nuclear weapons become real.<\/p>\n<p>The possibility of destroying civilization<br \/>\nbecomes tangible.<\/p>\n<p>Visiting Hiroshima is an opportunity to lead the way back<br \/>\nfrom the brink.<\/p>\n<p>Take three gifts to the world on your journey: your courage,<br \/>\nyour humanity, and a proposal to end the insanity.<\/p>\n<p>Offer to convene the nuclear nine to negotiate a treaty<br \/>\nto eliminate nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Set the world back on course.<\/p>\n<p>Do it for the survivors.<\/p>\n<p>And for children everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>____________________________________<\/p>\n<p><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><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wagingpeace.org\/take-three-gifts-on-your-journey\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 wagingpeace.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. President,<br \/>\nThe word is out.<br \/>\nYou will visit Hiroshima in May.<br \/>\nIn Hiroshima, nuclear weapons become real.<\/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-73280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73280","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=73280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}