{"id":691,"date":"2015-07-06T23:17:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T22:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/?p=691"},"modified":"2017-10-29T09:18:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T09:18:38","slug":"hanging-on-to-the-big-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/07\/hanging-on-to-the-big-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanging on to the big dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started out with this big dream about three years ago of finding some way to convince my own government to use methods other than war. Of the people I have spoken to, very few have said &#8220;war is inevitable&#8221; or &#8220;you can&#8217;t have society without war&#8221;. This has not just been because of the people I have started to mix with, not do I think it is people just being polite. It feels like an idea whose time has come. Those who do <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxforddictionaries.com\/definition\/english\/pooh-pooh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pooh-pooh<\/a> what I say I find are easily countered, despite my lack of knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes I think I have bitten off more than I can chew, especially when I see what others have achieved, or what large or long-standing organisations have not achieved. I start thinking I should wind back a bit on my ambitions. And then I&#8217;ll see something like this quote, which I just read when trying to go to sleep:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Cornelius_Van_Horne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William van Horne<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is nice, the number of the random strangers I have met this past few years whose attitude has been &#8220;go for it&#8221;. There&#8217;s a lot of hope out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started out with this big dream about three years ago of finding some way to convince my own government to use methods other than war. Of the people I have spoken to, very few have said &#8220;war is inevitable&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/07\/hanging-on-to-the-big-dreams\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivation","tag-motivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}