{"id":5051,"date":"2016-11-13T13:04:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T13:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/?p=5051"},"modified":"2016-11-13T13:04:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T13:04:32","slug":"balm-of-gilead-for-choices-made-that-must-be-lived-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/blog\/2016\/11\/13\/balm-of-gilead-for-choices-made-that-must-be-lived-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Balm of Gilead for Choices Made that Must Be Lived With"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am looking for ways to come to terms both negatively and positively with the presidential election. Constructively and destructively. \u00a0I am not one of those who feel that I have to paint every awful thing with a broad brush of positivity. In this I agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/us11.campaign-archive2.com\/?u=da6fdd71afbd94ce75c8ce2f5&amp;id=7497817a28&amp;e=342f52ddf4\">Laura Hilliger&#8217;s latest newsletter<\/a>. Hey, when the coffee&#8217;s\u00a0bad, spit it out on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>No, better to shine the light on the problem and deal with it than to pretend like Pangloss in <em><strong>Candide<\/strong><\/em> that this is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pangloss.com\/index.html?\"> the best of all possible worlds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Like most folks, I look for solace\u00a0here and now with my family. If they are all asleep, like they are now, then I turn to poetry or to Mister Rogers. \u00a0In the embed below, I am using a mobile app, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.touchcast.com\/\">&#8220;Touchcast&#8221;<\/a>, to bring a bit of Fred Rogers to you as well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.touchcast.com\/embed\/190800\" width=\"640\" height=\"684\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And if you don&#8217;t think Fred Rogers could kick ass, watch this amazing Congressional testimony as he rages softly against the dying of the light.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fKy7ljRr0AA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am looking for ways to come to terms both negatively and positively with the presidential election. Constructively and destructively. \u00a0I am not one of those who feel that I have to paint every awful thing with a broad brush of positivity. In this I agree with Laura Hilliger&#8217;s latest newsletter. Hey, when the coffee&#8217;s\u00a0bad,<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/blog\/2016\/11\/13\/balm-of-gilead-for-choices-made-that-must-be-lived-with\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-tellio","post-5051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5053,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions\/5053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}