{"id":7259,"date":"2023-02-27T18:45:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T23:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7259"},"modified":"2023-02-27T18:45:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T23:45:35","slug":"peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7259","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Peace&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So says some colorfully zealous scribbling on the fence of a residence on a well-traveled street which I pass as I stroll around my hometown streets in Wilmington.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hmm. \u00a0Needs some clarification!\u00a0 (The Nazis called for <em>peace<\/em> among the Germans after they seized power.\u00a0 Context is important .\u00a0 .\u00a0 . Just sayin&#8217; . . . )<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, peace is the command given to those under his control by every tyrant.&nbsp;&nbsp; It isn&#8217;t just the dreamy wish of happy hippies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A more wholesome cursory exhortation would be &#8220;Justice!&nbsp; Then Peace!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ah, but then we would need to define &#8220;justice&#8221; and to do that, we would need to know the &#8220;truth.&#8221;&nbsp; Indeed,&nbsp; it is <em>truth<\/em> that defines justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And where to we find the truth?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same place we find the Way and the Life:&nbsp; Jesus.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; And what are the commands and the law that he affirmed to be the foundation for justice?&nbsp; The Big Ten.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 Feb., 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So says some colorfully zealous scribbling on the fence of a residence on a well-traveled street which I pass as I stroll around my hometown streets in Wilmington.\u00a0 Hmm. \u00a0Needs some clarification!\u00a0 (The Nazis called for peace among the Germans after they seized power.\u00a0 Context is important .\u00a0 .\u00a0 . Just sayin&#8217; . . . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,24,23,31,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259"}],"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=7259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7260,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259\/revisions\/7260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}