{"id":224,"date":"2006-09-21T13:11:04","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T11:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/?p=224"},"modified":"2007-02-06T09:33:34","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T07:33:34","slug":"peace-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/peace-day\/","title":{"rendered":"peace day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>today is international peace day. makes me slightly uncomfortable in this place. happy that i&#8217;ll drop by the Resource Center for Nonviolence later this afternoon, but even more happy that i&#8217;ll go to the Brown Berets meeting this evening. cause when Leta told me about the celebrations for international peace day here in SC, it made me&#8230; well, seriously sceptical. a great show of light on the ocean, and dancing together in the Veterans Hall, with the idea that if everybody did that all over the world (okay, at this point i&#8217;m sure this is Leta&#8217;s interpretation, i&#8217;m not ready to believe that the organizers would present the event like that), the world would be a better place.<\/p>\n<p>hate to be cynical, and lightshows and dancing can be  beautiful things, but i can&#8217;t help thinking: what about actually <em>organizing<\/em> against the warmongers called your government? and i couldn&#8217;t help thinking of one of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mazenkerblog.blogspot.com\/\">Mazen Kerbaj<\/a>&#8216;s amazing drawings, from a tour to the nordic countries not long after the official cease-fire in Lebanon. inspired by a visit to the hippie kristiania area in copenhagen:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><img id=\"image227\" alt=\"red-eyes by mazen kerbaj\" src=\"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/redeyes.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<td>&#8220;what is more ugly,<br \/>\nwar or<br \/>\npeace and love?&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>today is international peace day. makes me slightly uncomfortable in this place. happy that i&#8217;ll drop by the Resource Center for Nonviolence later this afternoon, but even more happy that i&#8217;ll go to the Brown Berets meeting this evening. cause when Leta told me about the celebrations for international peace day here in SC, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/peace-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;peace day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}