{"id":2976,"date":"2012-11-02T08:32:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T12:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2012\/11\/maybe-even-today\/"},"modified":"2012-11-02T08:32:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T12:32:03","slug":"maybe-even-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2012\/11\/maybe-even-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe Even Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this recent post by <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Seth Godin<\/a> was spot-on:<\/p>\n<p><em>In the face of billions of dollars of destruction, of the loss of life, of families distrupted, it&#39;s easy to wonder what we were so hung up on just a few days ago. Many just went face to face with an epic natural disaster, and millions are still recovering. Writer&#39;s block or a delayed shipment or an unreturned phone call seem sort of trivial now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We&#39;re good at creating drama, at avoiding emotional labor and most of all, at thinking small. Maybe we don&#39;t need another meeting, a longer coffee break or another hour whittling away at our stuckness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><em>There&#39;s never been a better opportunity to step up and make an impact, while we&#39;ve got the chance. This generation, this decade, right now, there are more opportunities to connect and do art than ever before. Maybe even today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It&#39;s pretty easy to decide to roll with the punches, to look at the enormity of natural disaster and choose to hunker down and do less. It&#39;s more important than ever, I think, to persist and make a dent in the universe instead.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We&#39;ve all been offered access to so many tools, so many valuable connections, so many committed people. What an opportunity.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this recent post by Seth Godin was spot-on: In the face of billions of dollars of destruction, of the loss of life, of families distrupted, it&#39;s easy to wonder what we were so hung up on just a few days ago. Many just went face to face with an epic natural disaster, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-creativity","category-nature","category-new-paltz-ny","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976","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=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}