{"id":31140,"date":"2014-02-02T00:25:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T00:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=31140"},"modified":"2014-02-02T17:53:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T17:53:35","slug":"heraclitus-at-the-vatican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=31140","title":{"rendered":"Heraclitus at the Vatican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ \u00a0by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; within the Vatican, feathers fly &#8212; a second post posted at our <em>zenpuditry<\/em> site during our recent downtime ]<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Children, at the side of Pope Francis, release doves in a symbolic prayer for peace in the Ukraine:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpunditry.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/spec-doves-and-crows.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" id=\"i-86\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpunditry.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/spec-doves-and-crows.png?w=487\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What happens next is seen in the lower panel &#8212; an almost heraldic battle of the birds, black crow against white dove.\u00a0Consider, then, war and peace, as they are embodied here.<\/p>\n<p>Heraclitus it was who observed,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ \u00a0by Charles Cameron &#8212; within the Vatican, feathers fly &#8212; a second post posted at our zenpuditry site during our recent downtime ] . Children, at the side of Pope Francis, release doves in a symbolic prayer for peace in the Ukraine: What happens next is seen in the lower panel &#8212; an almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,497,627,688,218,960,687,1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-doublequotes","category-peace","category-philosophy","category-pope","category-specs","category-uncategorized","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31140"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31218,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31140\/revisions\/31218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}