{"id":2779,"date":"2018-03-31T11:26:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T15:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2018\/03\/try-to-imagine\/"},"modified":"2018-03-31T11:26:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T15:26:06","slug":"try-to-imagine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2018\/03\/try-to-imagine\/","title":{"rendered":"Try To Imagine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are as many reasons that humans feel the need to express themselves creatively as there are humans, but one significant one \u2013 to try and create the world we wish to live in \u2013 was described in very real terms by writer Mohsin Hamid as an antidote to the anxiety one is likely to feel in a place like the Middle East:<\/p>\n<p><em>And for me, writing books and being, you know, someone who&#39;s politically active is part of that. I don&#39;t want to be anxious on my day-to-day life. I want to try to imagine a future I&#39;d like to live in and then write books and do things that, in my own small way, make it more likely that that future will come to exist.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/03\/09\/592158501\/from-refugees-to-politics-mohsin-hamid-writes-the-change-he-wants-to-see\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are as many reasons that humans feel the need to express themselves creatively as there are humans, but one significant one \u2013 to try and create the world we wish to live in \u2013 was described in very real terms by writer Mohsin Hamid as an antidote to the anxiety one is likely to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}