{"id":1396,"date":"2008-12-02T09:30:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T04:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2021-01-10T12:48:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T07:18:07","slug":"causalities-and-casualties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2008\/12\/02\/causalities-and-casualties\/","title":{"rendered":"Causalities and Casualties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Part 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For how are they made? By the inequality that surrounds. By their angst that accompanies our opulence. By the unfairness of it all. And when I look at my hands, I realize, I also have a hand in making them. I can\u2019t condone, but I can\u2019t incriminate either. There is blood on my hands too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Part 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yes, I am desensitised. Because I exist in agonising helplessness when millions around the world die of poverty, lack of healthcare etc. Yes, it&#8217;s connected. And when those who prefer to be oblivious to this, wake up to a terrorist act and resurrect humanitarianism, just because it struck too close, I smell rot. My bad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Part 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I\u2019m sorry. Sorry that it was your duty to become the nation\u2019s cross-bearer. I\u2019ll not join groups that\u2019ll claim not to let your sacrifice go in vain. Sorry it will. We\u2019ll get back to our lives. Sorry we\u2019ll forget you in time. All I can do is pray, for you and those you left behind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">until next time, topical compassion!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 1 For how are they made? By the inequality that surrounds. By their angst that accompanies our opulence. By the unfairness of it all. And when I look at my hands, I realize, I also have a hand in making them. I can\u2019t condone, but I can\u2019t incriminate either. There is blood on my <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2008\/12\/02\/causalities-and-casualties\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1479,412,6181,6056],"tags":[599,602,601,600],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11","category-thoughtstream","category-life","category-social-commentary","category-society-culture","tag-compassion","tag-humanitarianism","tag-humanity","tag-terrorism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}