{"id":6529,"date":"2022-10-08T08:45:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T13:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6529"},"modified":"2022-10-08T10:06:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T15:06:40","slug":"truth-and-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6529","title":{"rendered":"Truth and War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Swords and Shields was war up close and personal: <br>You see the eyes of a person as he dies<br>Under the blows of your sword; <br>No distancing death from your view. <br>You do what you got to do; <br>It is either he or you. <br>And now we think less grimly of war, <br>Carried out at distances remote <br>Where a missile is sent beyond the view <br>Of those who bomb their enemy. <br>But what shall be the remedy? <br>Bring back hand-to-hand combat? <br>Or make Truth and Peace a priority. <br>Ah, but true peace comes only when <br>Truth is placed at the fore; <br>Otherwise you play the whore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0939 on 8 Oct., 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swords and Shields was war up close and personal: You see the eyes of a person as he diesUnder the blows of your sword; No distancing death from your view. You do what you got to do; It is either he or you. And now we think less grimly of war, Carried out at distances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,50,9,12,57,30,56,52,21,24,53,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6534,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions\/6534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}