{"id":21944,"date":"2019-10-25T09:05:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T13:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=21944"},"modified":"2019-10-25T09:05:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T13:05:04","slug":"gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=21944","title":{"rendered":"gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/IMG_1805-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21941\" width=\"383\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/IMG_1805-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/IMG_1805-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>(Provo, UT) I am at Brigham Young University, discussing civic engagement with insightful faculty and students, against a background of cold, clear mountains. Within the past two weeks, I have had somewhat similar conversations inside the classroom of a Massachusetts medium security prison, a Tufts classroom with 50 talented 18-20-year-olds, a glittering living room in Boston&#8217;s Louisburg Square (at a political fundraiser), and in various coffee shops around Cambridge, MA. I&#8217;ve also heard a lecture on Tagore and the Upanishads and chatted with colleagues scattered across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I just want to express my gratitude for these opportunities. To some extent, they come with being an academic, which is a privilege in itself. But my particular role and institution make such experiences especially frequent, diverse, and rewarding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=14311\">at BYU<\/a>; and <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=21917\">teaching about institutions, in a prison<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Provo, UT) I am at Brigham Young University, discussing civic engagement with insightful faculty and students, against a background of cold, clear mountains. Within the past two weeks, I have had somewhat similar conversations inside the classroom of a Massachusetts medium security prison, a Tufts classroom with 50 talented 18-20-year-olds, a glittering living room in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21944","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=21944"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21953,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21944\/revisions\/21953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}