{"id":21421,"date":"2016-04-25T14:21:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T21:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=21421"},"modified":"2016-04-25T14:21:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T21:21:58","slug":"not-quite-morning-monday-musing-april-25-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/25\/not-quite-morning-monday-musing-april-25-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Quite Morning Monday Musing April 25, 2016"},"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<\/strong><\/em> and Calliope<\/em><\/strong> we are exploring what they can offer us for inspiration to have the hope fueling politics.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

"Hope is patience with the lamp lit. "                        <\/strong><\/em>\"erato\"<\/a>
\n\t–Tertullian<\/strong><\/p>\n

"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out<\/strong><\/em>."
\n\t–Vaclav Havel<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today's sole offering is Erato<\/strong><\/em>'s (love) [hat tip Joanne]:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Harrison Ford auctions Han Solo jacket for a very personal reason<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/04\/14\/1515280\/-Harrison-Ford-auctions-Han-Solo-jacket-for-a-very-personal-reason<\/a><\/p>\n

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. "Hope is patience with […]<\/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-21421","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\/21421","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=21421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}