{"id":1485,"date":"2018-05-17T04:33:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T04:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2018-05-17T04:33:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T04:33:31","slug":"blog-post-2-contemplative-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/2018\/05\/17\/blog-post-2-contemplative-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post #2 Contemplative practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As someone that does Lear in a different style than most everyone else I feel that the contemplative practice is a welcome change for the usual way teaching is done. Some may see this as strange and awkward but they need but trust in something new and try to use the new method of learning to explore new ideas and issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The lesson where we were given the raisin and told not to eat it. It was strange at first as the immediate impulse is to scoff it down, after all it\u2019s just one raisin. But as we held it in our mouth and spoke of the history of the small dried fruit it took on a whole new significance that is hard to grasp if you just read it in a book. The issue of overconsumption is prevalent in developed nations as people take small things like a raisin as something unspecial overlooking the lengthy process it takes to go from a plant to a snack and the impacts that come with that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As someone that does Lear in a different style than most everyone else I feel that the contemplative practice is a welcome change for the usual way teaching is done. Some may see this as strange and awkward but they need but trust in something new and try to use the new method of learning to explore new ideas and&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/2018\/05\/17\/blog-post-2-contemplative-practice\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}