{"id":970,"date":"2007-07-31T14:09:12","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T19:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=970"},"modified":"2007-07-31T14:09:12","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T19:09:12","slug":"another-peace-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"Another peace post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my sister Abby&#8217;s favorite blogs is &#8220;A Commonplace Book,&#8221; written by the children&#8217;s book author Julius Lester. Recently, Abby alerted me to an excellent post by Lester about how few protests against the war in iraq that we&#8217;re seeing (<a href=\"http:\/\/acommonplacejbl.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/photograph-1966.html\">link<\/a>). Lester has a follow-up post, where he says that one of his readers says that much of the protest is now happening online (<a href=\"http:\/\/acommonplacejbl.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/odds-and-ends.html\">link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Both posts are worth reading. But I&#8217;d also say that the news media are ignoring the few protests that do take place, e.g., the media ignored the March 16 protest at the White House that resulted in the arrest of 200 religious leaders including Jim Wallis (as I pointed out in a past post: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=818\">link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what the answer is &#8212; more protests, get Congress moving &#8212; all I know is that we&#8217;re spending an awful lot of money in Iraq, with few positive results. Beyond that, any war carries a huge moral cost &#8212; and I think we&#8217;re already beginning to pay that moral price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my sister Abby&#8217;s favorite blogs is &#8220;A Commonplace Book,&#8221; written by the children&#8217;s book author Julius Lester. Recently, Abby alerted me to an excellent post by Lester about how few protests against the war in iraq that we&#8217;re seeing (link). Lester has a follow-up post, where he says that one of his readers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}