{"id":693,"date":"2008-06-04T08:34:29","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T15:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=693"},"modified":"2008-06-04T07:34:22","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T14:34:22","slug":"dona-nobis-pacem-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"Dona Nobis Pacem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/june408_dnp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-694 aligncenter\" title=\"june408_dnp\" src=\"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/june408_dnp-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/june408_dnp-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/june408_dnp.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In November of 2006 I participated in the first <em>Dona Nobis Pacem<\/em> blog blast for peace.  It was the brainchild of <a href=\"http:\/\/peaceglobes.blogspot.com\/\">Mimi<\/a> and two others have since occurred.  In my first post, I asked &#8220;<em>If social connections exist and what we write has power, why can\u2019t a group of people posting a similar graphic calling for peace &#8211; whatever the word peace means to you &#8211; wield similar power?<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today, I am once again participating in <a href=\"http:\/\/peaceglobes.blogspot.com\/\">Mimi&#8217;s<\/a> call for peace throughout the world.  I am hoping that through education and exchanges of experiences we can find a solid patch of ground from which we can build a world where understanding is the ultimate goal.  While I have no issues with independence overall, I believe a collectivist vision with a view to acceptance is required in order to succeed. As before I believe that this shared understanding can be developed through communication.<\/p>\n<p>I invite everyone to spend the day communicating with others.  Perhaps someone you might not normally speak to.  Only through exposure to the <em>new<\/em> can we attempt to break free from the bondage of the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November of 2006 I participated in the first Dona Nobis Pacem blog blast for peace. It was the brainchild of Mimi and two others have since occurred. In my first post, I asked &#8220;If social connections exist and what we write has power, why can\u2019t a group of people posting a similar graphic calling [&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-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}