{"id":2593,"date":"2010-09-24T07:20:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T12:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/?p=2593"},"modified":"2010-09-24T13:17:10","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T18:17:10","slug":"reflections-on-peace-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/reflections-on-peace-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on Peace Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consider this: Three hundred and thirty-five dojos participated in Peace Week, from forty-three countries.  According to Google, World Peace Day was observed in such diverse locales as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uripakistan.org\/\">Punjab province<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buanews.gov.za\/news\/10\/10092010351001\">Addis Ababa<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bernama.com\/bernama\/v5\/newsindex.php?id=528808\">Kathmandu<\/a>. Nearly three hundred news articles reported on the event during the last week alone. It&#8217;s something to think about.<\/p>\n<p>O-Sensei:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Those who think deeply about Aikido feel that they must participate in the establishment of a universal system of truth and justice. It is our duty to serve as messengers and guides for world peace and universal brotherhood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Martin Luther King, Jr.:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear&#8230; That old law about &#8220;an eye for an eye&#8221; leaves everybody blind&#8230; The time is always right to do the right thing&#8230; Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mahatma Gandhi:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is easy enough to be friendly to one&#8217;s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider this: Three hundred and thirty-five dojos participated in Peace Week, from forty-three countries. According to Google, World Peace Day was observed in such diverse locales as the Punjab province, Addis Ababa, and Kathmandu. Nearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5780,"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":[7,6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","category-jerry","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2593"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5783,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions\/5783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}