{"id":576,"date":"2006-01-01T00:00:20-05:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-01T05:00:20+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/01\/declaration-of-principles"},"modified":"2006-01-01T00:00:20-05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-01T05:00:20+00:00","slug":"declaration-of-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2006\/01\/01\/declaration-of-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"Declaration of&nbsp;Principles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><blockquote cite=\"Citizen G'kar (J. Michael Straczynski)\"><p>\r\nThe universe speaks in many languages, but only one voice.<br \/>\r\nThe language is not Narn, or Human, or Centauri, or Gaim or Minbari.<br \/>\r\nIt speaks in the language of hope.<br \/>\r\nIt speaks in the language of trust.<br \/>\r\nIt speaks in the language of strength and the language of compassion;<br \/>\r\nIn the language of the heart and the language of the soul.<\/p>\r\n<p>But always it is the same voice.<\/p>\r\n<p>It is the voice of our ancestors, speaking through us,<br \/>\r\nAnd the voice of our inheritors, waiting to be born.<br \/>\r\nIt is the small, still voice that says<br \/>\r\n<q>We are one.<br \/>\r\nNo matter the blood, no matter the skin<br \/>\r\nNo matter the world, no matter the star:<br \/>\r\nWe are one.<br \/>\r\nNo matter the pain, no matter the darkness<br \/>\r\nNo matter the loss, no matter the fear:<br \/>\r\nWe are one.<\/q><\/p>\r\n<p>Here, gathered together in common cause,<br \/>\r\nwe agree to recognize this singular truth:<br \/>\r\nThat we are one<br \/>\r\nand this singular rule:<br \/>\r\nThat we must be kind to one another<br \/>\r\nBecause each voice enriches us and ennobles us<br \/>\r\nand each voice lost diminishes us.<\/p>\r\n<p>We are the voice of the Universe,<br \/>\r\nthe soul of creation,<br \/>\r\nthe fire that will light the way to a better future.<br \/>\r\nWe are one.<\/p>\r\n<p>We are one.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The universe speaks in many languages, but only one voice. The language is not Narn, or Human, or Centauri, or Gaim or Minbari. It speaks in the language of hope. It speaks in the language of trust. It speaks in the language of strength and the language of compassion; In the language of the heart&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}