{"id":1342,"date":"2003-08-01T10:13:22","date_gmt":"2003-08-01T14:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2003\/08\/01\/1342.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:43:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:43:25","slug":"more-notes-from-union-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2003\/08\/01\/more-notes-from-union-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"More Notes from Union Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So. Your Humble Blogger is in a Union Meeting yesterday (and by the way, I can't decide if it's great or awful that I belong to a union whose leadership reads <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godine.com\/title%20pages\/backlist%20titles\/children\/0879235268.html\">children's books<\/a> at meetings for inspiration) and Our Leader mentions, casually, how important it is to have a sense of your place in history. Both for an individual to have that, and for an institution.\n\n<p>Whew.\n\n<p>Well, I'm in many ways retarditaire; well behind my historical context. I mean, the major artistic trend of the day (which I define, broadly, as fascination with the border between reality and fiction) leaves me pretty cold. The major political trends of the day, right, left and center, leave me pretty cold as well. The two genres of music I listen to by preference are from the 1930s (more or less) and the Elizabethan era (more or less).\n\n<p>But that's not her point. Her point was that if you want to change the world, if you want to repair the world, you need to see the world, and know where it's going, and where you want it to go. That's all. Know where the world is, where it's going, and where you want it to go. And no, she knew it couldn't be done, but that doesn't mean it isn't important to do it anyway. And Your Humble Blogger agrees with her.\n\n<p>On the other hand, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonsays.com\/book\/default_book.cfm?isbn=0671666894&amp;areaid=33\">C D B<\/a> is by far a better book.\n\n<p>Redintegro Iraq,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So. Your Humble Blogger is in a Union Meeting yesterday (and by the way, I can&#8217;t decide if it&#8217;s great or awful that I belong to a union whose leadership reads children&#8217;s books at meetings for inspiration) and Our Leader&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16817,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions\/16817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}