{"id":155576,"date":"2021-05-09T03:46:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T03:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=196429"},"modified":"2021-05-09T03:46:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T03:46:08","slug":"earth-day-2021-continuing-education-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/09\/earth-day-2021-continuing-education-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day 2021: Continuing Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">by Paul Cech \/ May 8th, 2021<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>I sat<\/p>\n<p>Reading about Bernardone and Thoreau<br \/>Continuing Ed. about<br \/>Seeing the tree within the forest<br \/>Seeing the individual within humanity<\/p>\n<p>Listening to Denver<br \/>Relearning about the inspiration<br \/>Found within a landscape<br \/>Reconnecting to the flora, fauna, and each other<\/p>\n<p>Remembering a temperature inversion and smog in Donora, PA<br \/>And the Clean Air Act<br \/>Remembering the Cuyahoga River fire<br \/>And the EPA<\/p>\n<p>Thinking about the struggle for<br \/>Peace, justice and equality<br \/>On this universally obscure planet<\/p>\n<p>I stood up<br \/>To walk paths well known to me<br \/>I noticed changes and<br \/>What has remained the same<\/p>\n<p>I thought<\/p>\n<p>Children of the Earth<br \/>We are all one<br \/>It is in our genes<\/p>\n<p>Celebrate the day<br \/>Celebrate our existence<br \/>Celebrate the Earth<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">Paul Cech has been writing poetry since 1970. Several of his poems have been published as Saturday Poems in the Pittsburgh- Post Gazette and the Thomas Merton Center of Pittsburgh has published several of his poems in NewPeople. <a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/author\/paulcech\/\">Read other articles by Paul<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p class=\"postmeta\">This article was posted on Saturday, May 8th, 2021 at 8:46pm and is filed under <a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/category\/general\/\" rel=\"category tag\">General<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/05\/09\/earth-day-2021-continuing-education\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Paul Cech \/ May 8th, 2021 I sat Reading about Bernardone and ThoreauContinuing Ed. aboutSeeing the tree within the forestSeeing the individual within humanity Listening to DenverRelearning\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,4],"tags":[103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155577,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155576\/revisions\/155577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}