{"id":871,"date":"2016-11-10T21:57:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T01:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/?p=871"},"modified":"2016-11-10T21:57:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T01:57:41","slug":"and-a-new-struggle-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/10\/and-a-new-struggle-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"And a new struggle begins&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent some time on November 9th texting people not to limit their political life to the ballot box. \u00a0A message I have been trying to spread for the past several years. \u00a0The words were well received and I am elated that new people are preparing to awaken politically.<\/p>\n<p>It has been encouraging to see, in light of the Trump presidency, that others have taken to this message, encouraging people to stay informed, engaged, and increase their political activity.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the battle. \u00a0The work is tedious. Moving a mountain one stone at a time may seem like an effort in futility, but with many hands, the mountain can be moved.<\/p>\n<p>Politics is a war of attrition.\u00a0 \u00a0Every morning, after an election, regardless of outcomes, one must look in a mirror and ask, &#8220;What stone will I move today?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stuck on figuring out what you should work on? \u00a0Take an inventory of your passions. \u00a0Some of mine include the First Amendment, transparency, libraries, and the arts.<\/p>\n<p>If you need someone to talk with, reach out. \u00a0I&#8217;m always happy to cheer you along and help you get involved.<\/p>\n<p>Laugh when you can. \u00a0And as <a href=\"http:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/2010\/06\/29\/be-kind\/\">Ian MacLaren<\/a> said, &#8220;Be kind. \u00a0Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent some time on November 9th texting people not to limit their political life to the ballot box. \u00a0A message I have been trying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,78],"tags":[106,186],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-participatory-culture","category-politics","tag-politics-2","tag-trump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}