{"id":2253,"date":"2009-11-13T13:27:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T18:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2009-11-13T13:27:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T18:27:33","slug":"advice-play-politics-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/13\/advice-play-politics-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice:: Play Politics &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nice list on what to do in college, read the whole thing!<br \/>\nI fancy myself as still young, but I also believe that if it&#8217;s anybody&#8217;s time it&#8217;s our generation&#8217;s time now! LET US SPEAK UP! LET US BE INVOLVED!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n5. Do not fear political activism. I was once at an event where a student asked Jimmy Carter how he, formerly the guardian of American law, felt years earlier when his freshman daughter was arrested at a protest against apartheid. He answered: \u201cI cannot tell you how proud I was.<strong> If you young people cannot express your conscience now, when will you? Later you will have duties, jobs, families that make that harder. You will never be freer than now.\u201d <\/strong>Also, among the activists, you are more likely to meet the intellectually adventurous people mentioned in the last item.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/06\/opinion\/06wills.html\">Op-Ed Contributor &#8211; Play Politics &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice list on what to do in college, read the whole thing! I fancy myself as still young, but I also believe that if it&#8217;s anybody&#8217;s time it&#8217;s our generation&#8217;s time now! LET US SPEAK UP! LET US BE INVOLVED! 5. Do not fear political activism. I was once at an event where a student &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/13\/advice-play-politics-nytimes-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advice:: Play Politics &#8211; NYTimes.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice-for-the-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}