{"id":180201,"date":"2023-01-05T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eugeneweekly.com\/?p=188728"},"modified":"2023-01-05T09:00:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T17:00:42","slug":"imagine-peace-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/05\/imagine-peace-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine Peace On Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">When I was a child and the movie, which used to cost 25 cents, got scary, I simply closed my eyes. The soundtrack usually signaled that the terror was either gone or at least diminished and that it was safe to resume watching. Some 80 years have passed, and I again find myself squeezing my eyes shut when those visions of thousands risking life and limb to cross borders in an effort to enter the U.S. appear on TV. Young people, old people, babes in arms, entire families, all desperate for a safer life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don\u2019t presume to know how this problem can be solved, but I can imagine how horrifying it must be to live in a country, fearing for your safety and, perhaps, your life. Then, too, just a few years ago, there were the cruel depictions, also shown on TV, of children being separated from their parents at the U.S. border.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In reflecting on these horrors, the same melody plays over and over in my head \u2014 John Lennon\u2019s \u201cImagine\u201d and its meaningful lyrics: \u201cImagine there\u2019s no countries, it isn\u2019t hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for\u2026 Imagine all the people livin\u2019 life in peace. You may say I\u2019m a dreamer but I\u2019m not the only one. I hope someday you\u2019ll join us and the world will be as one.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joyce Curtis<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eugene<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a child and the movie, which used to cost 25 cents, got scary, I simply closed my eyes. The soundtrack usually signaled \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/eugeneweekly.com\/2023\/01\/05\/imagine-peace-on-earth\/\">Continue reading\u00a0<span class=\"meta-nav\">\u2192<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,77,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ew-extra","category-letters","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}