{"id":83462,"date":"2016-11-28T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=83462"},"modified":"2016-11-25T18:55:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T18:55:34","slug":"jesus-walks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/11\/jesus-walks\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Walks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Udaya-R.-Tennakoon.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-83463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Udaya-R.-Tennakoon.jpeg\" alt=\"udaya-r-tennakoon\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Christmas carols ring the bell<br \/>\nFireworks above the heads illume<br \/>\nLighten and brighten streets are sleepless<br \/>\nAlong the roads and among the people, Jesus walks<\/p>\n<p>The anger of hungry world he sees<br \/>\nPut on masks of ruined souls grim<br \/>\nName of peace, robbers sell<br \/>\nAlong the roads and among the people, Jesus walks<\/p>\n<p>Binary oppositions create waves<br \/>\nFairness candle melts on temples<br \/>\nBeauty of night &#8220;They&#8221; betray<br \/>\nAlong the roads and among the people, Jesus walks<\/p>\n<p>With a whip to cleansing of the temple<br \/>\nTo chase out &#8220;them&#8221; from corrupted altar<br \/>\nClash of humanity up on the corpse, gun fires<br \/>\nAlong the roads and among the people, Jesus walks<\/p>\n<p>They see yet eyes are blind<br \/>\nThey listen yet ears are deaf<br \/>\nThey speak yet words are empty<br \/>\nAlong the roads and among the people, Jesus walks<\/p>\n<p>Cross and crucified statues hung on walls<br \/>\nForgotten reason slips in Bible<br \/>\nHappy of ceremony sits on cemetery<br \/>\nChristmas without Jesus\u00b4s missionary<\/p>\n<p>Along the roads and among the people, Jesus walks<br \/>\n____________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Udaya R. Tennakoon \u2013 Poet\/ Diaspora Writer, Journalist, Peace and Human Rights Activist. Graduate Student at the University of Innsbruck Austria.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas carols ring the bell<br \/>\nFireworks above the heads illume<br \/>\nLighten and brighten streets are sleepless<br \/>\nAlong the roads and among the people, Jesus walks<\/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-83462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83462","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=83462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}