{"id":4637,"date":"2018-10-31T09:54:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T16:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/?p=4637"},"modified":"2019-01-17T00:35:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T08:35:13","slug":"from-a-site-without-meaning-to-sacred-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/radical-joy-revealed\/from-a-site-without-meaning-to-sacred-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"From a Site without Meaning to Sacred Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Beauty made from natural and plastic materials at a mall. 2010 Global Earth Exchange, Charlottesville, Virginia. Photo by Mary Janet Fowler<\/h4>\n<div>\n<div>At a time when this living planet and the geopolitical world we all inhabit are sorely challenged in many ways, Radical Joy for Hard Times offers a way to transform our relationship with and our perception of damaged places:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>From: A waste thing you want to avoid<\/div>\n<div>To: A living biocommunity you want to visit and get reacquainted with<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>From: A place that&#8217;s been rampantly taken from<\/div>\n<div>To: A place you can now give back to<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>From: A site without meaning<\/div>\n<div>To: Sacred ground you replenish with respect and awe<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>From: Something ugly, an eyesore<\/div>\n<div>To: A field of potential beauty that you yourself bring forth<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>From: A strange place you must learn to forget<\/div>\n<div>To: A loved place you relearn to remember and spend time with<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>To visit, experience, and make a simple gift of beauty for a hurt place is to refuse to capitulate to ugliness, despair, and powerlessness. It is to bring beauty to the world.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beauty made from natural and plastic materials at a mall. 2010 Global Earth Exchange, Charlottesville, Virginia. Photo by Mary Janet Fowler At a time when this living planet and the geopolitical world we all inhabit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":23,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"place":[],"event-year":[204],"media-type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4637"},{"taxonomy":"place","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/place?post=4637"},{"taxonomy":"event-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-year?post=4637"},{"taxonomy":"media-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-type?post=4637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}