{"id":17446,"date":"2018-08-23T12:18:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T19:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=17446"},"modified":"2018-08-23T12:18:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T19:18:39","slug":"improving-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2018\/08\/23\/improving-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving society"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Good tweet from KTO:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">...we can either find reasons to improve inclusion, or we can make excuses for continuing past exclusion.<\/p>&mdash; Kat Tanaka Okopnik (@KTOkopnik) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KTOkopnik\/status\/1032680863769735168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 23, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>\r\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n<p>Which reminds me of a recent thing I was thinking about.<\/p>\r\n<p>During the discussion about this year\u2019s Worldcon programming, I had the following series of reactions (in my head; didn\u2019t say this publicly) about some of the points people were making:<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n  <li>The folks who are new to Worldcon don\u2019t realize that such-and-such is just the way Worldcon always is. I know that\u2019s unfortunate\/bad\/problematic, but [insert anecdotes illustrating that Worldcon has always been that way]. Nothing to be done about it.<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u2026Oh, hey, I guess just because it\u2019s always been that way doesn\u2019t mean it has to always be that way! People who aren\u2019t resigned to it are showing up and pointing out that it\u2019s a problem that we can and should fix! Yay for people improving things!<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p>(And boo to me for having been complacent about it.)<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions","category-improving-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17447,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17446\/revisions\/17447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}