{"id":150,"date":"2020-02-07T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2020\/02\/07\/overwhelmed-by-the-injustice-of-our-times\/"},"modified":"2020-02-07T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T14:39:00","slug":"overwhelmed-by-the-injustice-of-our-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2020\/02\/07\/overwhelmed-by-the-injustice-of-our-times\/","title":{"rendered":"overwhelmed by the injustice of our times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I so want this to be true:<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-size: large;\">As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>From &#8220;Letter to M. Nadeau&#8221; (30 March 1973) from E.B. White, American essayist, columnist, poet and editor. He is best known today for his work in a writers&#8217; guide, <i>The Elements of Style<\/i>, and for three children&#8217;s books <i>Charlotte&#8217;s Web<\/i>, <i>Stuart Little<\/i> and <i>The Trumpet of the Swan<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Please tell me the guy who wrote <i>The Elements of Style<\/i> isn&#8217;t wrong (required reading for all Western Kentucky University journalism majors back in the day &#8211; still have my copy).<\/p>\n<p>I feel like that, even if it&#8217;s <i>not<\/i> a contagion, it&#8217;s still worth having hope if there is still just one upright woman and one compassionate man who are refusing not only to be a part of this madness right now, but are also refusing to be silent about it. It&#8217;s still worth fighting.<\/p>\n<p>But I fully admit, I&#8217;m getting tired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I so want this to be true: As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate.&nbsp; From &#8220;Letter to M. Nadeau&#8221; (30 March 1973) from E.B. White, American essayist, columnist, poet and editor. He is best known today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}