{"id":1136,"date":"2018-05-06T22:19:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T22:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2018-05-06T22:20:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T22:20:57","slug":"an-academic-contemplative-practice-convert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/2018\/05\/06\/an-academic-contemplative-practice-convert\/","title":{"rendered":"An Academic Contemplative Practice Convert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came into the class about hunger, having followed Professor Litfin\u2019s suggestion of not eating breakfast, absolutely starving \u2013 or what I qualify starving to be. I\u2019m a person who eats four small meals a day, perfectly spaced out as to never feel hungry, to avoid what people privileged as me refer to as \u201changer\u201d. Before this contemplative practice, I had metaphorically rolled my eyes at them.<\/p>\n<p>However, this one struck me with how little of what hunger, true hunger, really is or how it feels \u2013 and more importantly, how I\u2019ve never felt it. Everyone jokes how college kids struggle for the first time with money, and therefore having none to buy food. \u201cFood is the common denominator of human survival,\u201d along with copious amounts of coffee for the college kids (Quinn, \u201cHunger Games\u201d). But our \u201cstarving\u201d is a stack of Top Ramen, takeout pizza from last week, and PB&amp;J sandwiches. That\u2019s not starving, not even starving for some Americans, let alone people in countries decimated economically by America\u2019s capitalism. There is rampant \u201cfood insecurity and food deserts\u201d, especially in Seattle, but I don\u2019t feel their consequences (Alkon, <em>The New Food Activism<\/em>). I never worry about where my next meal is coming from.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1138\" src=\"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"197\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1138\" src=\"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"197\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1138\" src=\"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"197\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1144\" src=\"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"197\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1138\" src=\"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"197\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While the other practices haven\u2019t made the impact on me that this one did, I\u2019m glad we do them. The bitter sweet taste of the cocoa and the connection to life\u2019s ups and downs was cheesy, but a pleasant way of looking at life (Lecture, 4\/17). It also allows the insertion ourselves into the reading and the videos, making personal connections that really cements the material in our minds. It places us in the course matter and highlights how it relates to us all, if just not directly. Once I get over myself, I appreciate them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came into the class about hunger, having followed Professor Litfin\u2019s suggestion of not eating breakfast, absolutely starving \u2013 or what I qualify starving to be. I\u2019m a person who eats four small meals a day, perfectly spaced out as to never feel hungry, to avoid what people privileged as me refer to as \u201changer\u201d. Before this contemplative practice, I&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/2018\/05\/06\/an-academic-contemplative-practice-convert\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":1155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[114],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contemplative-practices","tag-chocolate-college-hunger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}