{"id":18480,"date":"2015-12-21T10:30:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T18:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=18480"},"modified":"2015-12-21T10:30:05","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T18:30:05","slug":"monday-morning-musings-december-21-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/21\/monday-morning-musings-december-21-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Morning Musings December 21, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

In politics it is said, that when not fueled by hope there is a vacuum for fear to fill. Since artists turn to the muses, Clio, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia, Ourania and Calliope <\/strong>we are exploring what they can offer us for inspiration to have the hope fueling politics.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\"forgotten-muses-1226788\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.<\/em>” Robert Kennedy<\/p>\n

Today we’ll start with Terpsichore (<\/strong>dance):<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/a-dancing-guy-caught-on-camera-picking-up-litter-reminds-us-that-we-can-do-more-too?c=upw1&u=6ffb12f2d750fff1c628f4ed4366938bb526f1d5<\/a><\/p>\n

Does he embody the spirit Kennedy guided us towards?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

An example of rhetorical analysis Calliope<\/strong> might claim:<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/nymag.com\/thecut\/2015\/12\/election-and-the-death-of-white-male-power.html<\/a><\/p>\n

After that, do you welcome a dose of comedy from Thalia<\/strong> (video)?<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/component\/hwdvideoshare\/viewvideo\/80034<\/a><\/p>\n

Did that inspire new hope as the name suggested?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And let us end with Polymnia<\/strong> (mimicry):<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.dumage.com\/10-examples-of-animal-mimicry\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Do such examples of adaptation for survival engender hope?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And thank you dear reader for joining me on this journey of discovery and quest for hope!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In politics it is said, that when not fueled by hope there is a vacuum for fear to fill. Since artists turn to the muses, Clio, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia, Ourania and Calliope we are exploring what they can offer us for inspiration to have the hope fueling politics. “Few will have the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}