{"id":56771,"date":"2017-09-02T16:25:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T16:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=56771"},"modified":"2017-09-02T16:25:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T16:25:24","slug":"hunger-in-the-closing-lines-of-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=56771","title":{"rendered":"Hunger, in the closing lines of a poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; of the space race and children unborn, hungry ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the closing lines of the poem, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2017\/09\/saturday-poem.html\">The Earth is a Satellite of the Moon<\/a>, by <strong>Leonel Rugama<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The children of the people of Acahaulinca, because of hunger,<br \/>\nare not born<br \/>\nthey hunger to be born, only to die of hunger.<br \/>\nBlessed are the poor for they shall inherit the moon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I find these lines quite striking.<\/p>\n<p>Rugama&#8217;s moon is a bleak moon, but that&#8217;s a function of Rugama&#8217;s comparison of the cost of moon shots with the fate of generations hungry in Acahaulinca, wherever that is. I can point you to the moon, though &#8212; with the mandatory zen caution.<\/p>\n<p>Ouroboros, btw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; of the space race and children unborn, hungry ] . Here are the closing lines of the poem, The Earth is a Satellite of the Moon, by Leonel Rugama: The children of the people of Acahaulinca, because of hunger, are not born they hunger to be born, only to die [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,1349,610,1214,733,1479,741,1,657],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-death","category-humanitarian","category-moon","category-nasa","category-ouroboros","category-poetry","category-uncategorized","category-zen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56771","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=56771"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56776,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56771\/revisions\/56776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}