{"id":3002,"date":"2018-03-22T09:24:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T13:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2018-03-22T09:24:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T13:24:36","slug":"two-articles-ill-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=3002","title":{"rendered":"Two articles I’ll use"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, snow days and late arrivals mean you get to read more. <\/p>\n

One, Alex Mulachy’s thoughtful opening to Grid this month<\/a> brought me to this William James quote: <\/p>\n

\u201cWe must reflect that, when we reach the end of our days, our life experience will equal what we have paid attention to, whether by choice or default.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m going to do our circle around this quote today. For me, it’s helpful to think about when I’m choosing to do something — sit down and write a blog entry — and when I’m lost down internet rabbit holes. <\/p>\n

Two, this article from Sunday’s New York Times on youth activism<\/a> is powerful for all activists and is full of helpful advice. Distilling it to this quote: <\/p>\n

Trust your instincts, study your history and don’t read the comments<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

is spot on. Irony: the on-line comments from this article. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yeah, snow days and late arrivals mean you get to read more. One, Alex Mulachy’s thoughtful opening to Grid this month brought me to this William James quote: \u201cWe must reflect that, when we reach the end of our days, our life experience will equal what we have paid attention to, whether by choice or … Continue reading Two articles I’ll use<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-2017_2018"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-Mq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3004,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions\/3004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}