{"id":3066,"date":"2015-03-24T08:40:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T16:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/?p=3066"},"modified":"2015-06-03T14:49:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T22:49:24","slug":"why-you-cant-bomb-your-way-to-peace-poem-by-marius-mason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2015\/03\/24\/why-you-cant-bomb-your-way-to-peace-poem-by-marius-mason\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Can\u2019t Bomb Your Way To Peace \u2013 Poem by Marius Mason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/marius_mason.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2967\" src=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/marius_mason-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"marius_mason\" width=\"148\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>Why You Can&#8217;t Bomb Your Way To Peace<\/p>\n<p>Imagine<br \/>\nA steel-walled room, enclosed and full<br \/>\nOf children playing, grandmothers and the wash and<br \/>\nangry young men with an ax to grind.<br \/>\nOh yes, and a single shooter.<br \/>\nThe loaded pistol raised,<br \/>\nWhat moral authority will pull the trigger?<br \/>\nAnd if it does, if judgment issues vengeance, eschews logic,<br \/>\nDirects the bullet outward<br \/>\nTo the metal wall in a spirited trajectory<br \/>\nBehind their heads, they turn to look,<br \/>\nWhat then?<br \/>\nHow can one possibly predict or calculate the collateral damage done<br \/>\nAs that shot explodes in lethal fragments,<br \/>\nRicochets<br \/>\nAround the room,<br \/>\nSeeking something soft.<br \/>\n&#8220;The rain falls equally upon the guilty and the innocent&#8221;, we have been told<br \/>\nA war like this, like weather flows<br \/>\nA flood that brooks no peace<br \/>\nForever<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/supportmariusmason.org\/author\/supportmarie\/\">Please visit supportmarie!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why You Can&#8217;t Bomb Your Way To Peace Imagine A steel-walled room, enclosed and full Of children playing, grandmothers and the wash and angry young men with an ax to grind. Oh yes, and a single shooter. The loaded pistol raised, What moral authority will pull the trigger? And if it does, if judgment issues &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2015\/03\/24\/why-you-cant-bomb-your-way-to-peace-poem-by-marius-mason\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3067,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066\/revisions\/3067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}