{"id":5340,"date":"2026-03-27T09:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?p=5340"},"modified":"2026-03-28T21:59:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T04:59:33","slug":"a-topical-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/a-topical-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"A Topical Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Isn\u2019t war itself war crime?<br \/>Do ends ever justify the means?<br \/>Shouldn&#8217;t villains waging war do time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>War is not sublime.<br \/>Nor is it in our genes,<br \/>this lust which makes war crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not some pantomime.<br \/>Villains behind the scenes&nbsp;<br \/>are waging war. They should do time<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\">.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When they bury under rubble and grime<br \/>enfants, children, teens,<br \/>war itself becomes a crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How to defeat the pernicious slime&nbsp;<br \/>who drive the calculating machines&nbsp;<br \/>of war? They should do time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>War is the very paradigm<br \/>of death: destruction, carnage, screams.<br \/>War itself is a war crime.\u00a0<br \/>Villains who wage it must do time. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn\u2019t war itself war crime?Do ends ever justify the means?Shouldn&#8217;t villains waging war do time? War is not sublime.Nor is it in our genes,this lust which makes war crime. This is not some pantomime.Villains behind the scenes&nbsp;are waging war. They should do time. When they bury under rubble and grimeenfants, children, teens,war itself becomes a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/a-topical-poem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Topical Poem&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5340"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5357,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340\/revisions\/5357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}