{"id":1086,"date":"2021-09-30T12:12:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T11:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiescent.wordpress.com\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2021-09-30T12:12:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T11:12:57","slug":"world-planners-a-poem-for-cop-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/2021\/09\/30\/world-planners-a-poem-for-cop-26\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;World Planners&#8217; &#8211; a poem for COP 26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The world planners gather.<br>The young men mixed red blood with blue water<br>And windy sands covered shattered helmets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The old men confer with figures<br>And refashion their empires.<br>They seek a solution; they have it,<br>And they know it not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once when the world was younger<br>Some nineteen hundred years,<br>A quiet man walked the Judean hills<br>And along Galilee\u2019s shore;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then men left their nets.<br>And he spoke to the people<br>On a mountain with loaves and fishes,<br>And he entered the city on a burro<br>And they hailed him emperor\u2014<br>And they nailed him to a cross.<br>\u201cThe Kingdom of God is among you.\u201d<br>They worshiped his teaching<br>But were afraid to live it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The world planners gather,<br>They seek a solution; they have it,<br>And they know it not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arvel Steece, \u201cWorld Planners,\u201d <em>Christian Century<\/em>, March 20, 1946.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SOURCE: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/sermononmount0000jord\/page\/94\/mode\/2up\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/sermononmount0000jord\/page\/94\/mode\/2up<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world planners gather.The young men mixed red blood with blue waterAnd windy sands covered shattered helmets. The old men confer with figuresAnd refashion their empires.They seek a solution; they have it,And they know it not. Once when the world was youngerSome nineteen hundred years,A quiet man walked the Judean hillsAnd along Galilee\u2019s shore; Then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}