{"id":49,"date":"2006-07-13T16:31:18","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T20:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/2006\/07\/13\/ode-to-dialogue\/"},"modified":"2014-06-21T09:46:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T13:46:00","slug":"ode-to-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/ode-to-dialogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">(In memory of Martin Buber)<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Ladies and gentlemen,<br \/>Let us be honest.<br \/>No wrong can be righted<br \/>By steel-hearted<br \/>Money-minded<br \/>Laser-guided<br \/>Precision bombing<br \/>Child-desecrating<br \/>Automatons.<\/p>\n<p>Absolutely not.<\/p>\n<p>Wrongs are righted only<br \/>When true human beings<br \/>Sit down together<br \/>And discuss their fears<br \/>Resentments<br \/>Misunderstandings<br \/>Aspirations and<br \/>Hopes.<\/p>\n<p>For the creative word is the supreme expression<br \/>Of our humanity.<\/p>\n<p>So, for God&#8217;s sake,<br \/>Before they can drag and drug us<br \/>Back into the dark<br \/>Eternal void,<br \/>Let us rush into the streets<br \/>Studios<br \/>Lobbies<br \/>Bunkers<\/p>\n<p>And teach our leaders to converse.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Berkeley<br \/>15 February 1991<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(In memory of Martin Buber) Ladies and gentlemen,Let us be honest.No wrong can be rightedBy steel-heartedMoney-mindedLaser-guidedPrecision bombingChild-desecratingAutomatons. Absolutely not. Wrongs are righted onlyWhen true human beingsSit down togetherAnd discuss their fearsResentmentsMisunderstandingsAspirations andHopes. For the creative word is the supreme expressionOf our humanity. So, for God&#8217;s sake,Before they can drag and drug usBack into the darkEternal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,36,20,34,17,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}