{"id":1189,"date":"2022-05-19T15:49:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T20:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2022-05-19T15:49:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T20:49:25","slug":"color-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1189","title":{"rendered":"Color of Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Rob Vugrnick<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Peace grows what color will it be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peace cannot be red, bleed red<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peace cannot be blue, feel blue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peace cannot be yellow, hidden by sunlight<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Peace grows could it be green?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Green peace fed by a yellow sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Green peace covered by a blue sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Green peace sang to by red Cardinals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Does Peace have to come and go?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blue skies turn dark<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yellow sun goes away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Red Cardinals live and die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Does Peace have to be a cycle too?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yellow sun darkened by human acts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blue skies used by human crafts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Red Cardinals silenced by human deeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What happens when Peace does die?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Red bleeds since part of humanity dies too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blue feelings encompass young and old<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yellow sun yet, comes again\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What can I do to keep Peace growing green?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Help plant unselfishness where shines yellow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Help plant love in hearts turned blue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Help plant uncompromised value for not shedding red<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When Peace grows, what color will it be?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Image by Ann Winschel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-peace-may-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}