{"id":7130,"date":"2025-05-16T09:29:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T16:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/?p=7130"},"modified":"2025-05-16T09:29:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T16:29:53","slug":"gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/archives\/7130","title":{"rendered":"Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/actual-ice-plant-color.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/actual-ice-plant-color-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/actual-ice-plant-color-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/actual-ice-plant-color-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/actual-ice-plant-color-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/actual-ice-plant-color-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/actual-ice-plant-color.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I pray every day for an end to the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza. Sometimes I pray by playing the piano and intoning <em>Gaza<\/em> while visualizing a time when the women and children and men in Gaza will live in peace and have sufficient food and water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/forest-big-leaves.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/forest-big-leaves-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/forest-big-leaves-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/forest-big-leaves-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/forest-big-leaves-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/forest-big-leaves-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/forest-big-leaves.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are links to my piano prayer <a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/song\/gaza\/1812237816\"><em>Gaza<\/em> on Apple<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DnFu4VO9Fjc\">YouTube<\/a>. Any pennies I get from Apple downloads, and any tiny fractions of pennies I get from streams of <em>Gaza<\/em> will be donated to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&amp;q=doctors+without+borders\">Doctors Without Borders<\/a> who are doing all they can to help in Gaza. I get no pennies from Spotify because they only monetize songs that get more than a thousand streams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/parking-raven.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"805\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/parking-raven-805x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7125\" style=\"width:406px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/parking-raven-805x1024.jpg 805w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/parking-raven-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/parking-raven-768x977.jpg 768w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/parking-raven.jpg 1006w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The government of the United States is the main funder of Israel&#8217;s ongoing blockade of aid to Gaza and continuing bombing of civilians in Gaza. I write to my Congresspeople asking them to stop voting to send more military aid to Israel, but so far they keep voting to fund the genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/molly-minus-tidejpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/molly-minus-tidejpg-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/molly-minus-tidejpg-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/molly-minus-tidejpg-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/molly-minus-tidejpg-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/molly-minus-tidejpg-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/molly-minus-tidejpg.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I pray every day for the coming of peace to Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I pray every day for an end to the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza. Sometimes I pray by playing the piano and intoning Gaza while visualizing a time when the women and children and men in Gaza will live in peace and have sufficient food and water. Here are links to my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8296,8295,4305],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7135,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7130\/revisions\/7135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}