{"id":14579,"date":"2014-11-25T17:58:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T22:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=14579"},"modified":"2014-11-25T17:58:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T22:58:16","slug":"sometimes-better-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=14579","title":{"rendered":"sometimes it&#8217;s better to listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you should recognize that your own voice doesn&#8217;t have any special value and concentrate on listening and learning instead. (Perhaps the president should have thought that way before he made his brief and palid address last night.) I have been thinking about Ferguson today, but I would yield my time to others more eloquent and better placed to comment than I. For instance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peniel Joseph, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theroot.com\/articles\/culture\/2014\/11\/ferguson_is_a_wake_up_call.html\">Ferguson is a Wake Up Call that We are Not Post-Racial<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1uMuREx5Up3TAl5rLsd3kzHqE-rcoeFFOTTA0blh2iNg\/edit\">Teaching and Learning in a #Ferguson World <\/a>(Google doc of resources)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/26\/opinion\/the-meaning-of-the-ferguson-riots.html?partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">&#8220;The Meaning of the Ferguson Riots&#8221;<\/a> (New York Times masthead editorial)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ncdd.org\/16724\">&#8220;[National Coalition for Dialogue &amp; Deliberation-Community Relations Service] Meetings Being Planned Across the Country<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you should recognize that your own voice doesn&#8217;t have any special value and concentrate on listening and learning instead. (Perhaps the president should have thought that way before he made his brief and palid address last night.) I have been thinking about Ferguson today, but I would yield my time to others more eloquent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14579"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14588,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14579\/revisions\/14588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}