{"id":97450,"date":"2017-08-28T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=97450"},"modified":"2017-08-23T14:57:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T13:57:45","slug":"peace-to-twenty-first-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/08\/peace-to-twenty-first-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace to Twenty-First Century!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>History does not learn anything,<br \/>\nHow can this be?<br \/>\nWe are born to suffer<br \/>\nOr all the same, to live?<br \/>\nOh, what a sweet speech:<br \/>\nDemocracy, freedom, peace.<br \/>\nBut the shoulders are shaking with fear,<br \/>\nWhen the bombs are overhead.<br \/>\nSo far, it&#8217;s still quite close<br \/>\nBloody twentieth century,<br \/>\nIs it not more to blossom the garden?<br \/>\nStop, man!<br \/>\nWill be everything as before<br \/>\nIn the eternal flow of rivers,<br \/>\nWill our hopes to come true,<br \/>\nAnswer me, twenty-first century.<br \/>\nPoliticians and businessmen,<br \/>\nScientists and poets,<br \/>\nWhat, tell me the price<br \/>\nShould we pay for this?<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s drop our mistrust,<br \/>\nLet\u2019s forget the past insults,<br \/>\nLet\u2019s try to open really the door,<br \/>\nNot for the sake of appearance!<br \/>\n__________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/adolf-shwedchikov-e1494529780195.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-85262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/adolf-shwedchikov-e1494529780195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a><em>Dr. Adolf P. Shvedchikov is a Russian scientist, poet and translator. He has published over 150 scientific papers and 16 books in poetry. His poems has been translated into many languages and has been published in Russia, USA, Brazil, India, Japan, Korea, Spain, France, Greece, UK, Italy, Romania, Albania\u00a0 and Australia. In 2013 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature. He may be contacted at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:adolfps@gmail.com\"><strong>adolfps@gmail.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History does not learn anything,<br \/>\nHow can this be?<br \/>\nWe are born to suffer<br \/>\nOr all the same, to live?<\/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-97450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97450","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=97450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}