{"id":404,"date":"2013-08-30T02:33:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T02:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=404"},"modified":"2013-08-31T11:58:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T11:58:03","slug":"thoughts-of-august-on-a-sunny-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=404","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts of August on a Sunny Afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There used to be an old saying that wars start in August. At least World War I and World War II did. The theory behind the saying was that most European governments took August off\u00a0 for vacation and, well, <em>shit happens!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>This August, the United States is poised to launch a military strike against Syria. The reason for the attack is the\u00a0Syrian government&#8217;s use of chemical weapons on it&#8217;s own people in the currently raging Syrian civil war.<\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday, I took a nap on a warm sunny afternoon.\u00a0My two orange cats, <em>Felix<\/em> and <em>Quiet Rustle<\/em>, \u00a0came over and joined me on the bed.\u00a0 The sun was streaming in, a cool was breeze gently blowing, and the three of us snoozed away.<\/p>\n<p>When I woke, the scene was so peaceful, it made me think of all the suffering and death, human and animal, that was going on around the world at that very moment. Without a doubt, somewhere in the world at that instant, some innocent person, or child, or animal was suffering and being killed.<\/p>\n<p>We carry on of course because we don&#8217;t think about all the bad things that are happening beyond the circle of our own experience.<\/p>\n<p>We do things like go on vacation in August.<\/p>\n<p><em>copyright 2013 Magnus Incognito<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There used to be an old saying that wars start in August. At least World War I and World War II did. The theory behind the saying was that most European governments took August off\u00a0 for vacation and, well, shit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=404\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}