{"id":26258,"date":"2020-02-11T22:41:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T03:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=26258"},"modified":"2020-02-13T22:45:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T03:45:16","slug":"new-yorker-state-of-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=26258","title":{"rendered":"New Yorker State of Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26257\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26257\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jelanicobb-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"358\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jelanicobb-sm.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jelanicobb-sm-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26257\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Jelani Cobb speaks at Syracuse University<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the current era of 24-hour news cycles and a first-class library at everyone\u2019s fingertips, it\u2019s good to occasionally pause and get a proper perspective. Last night Columbia University Professor and New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb said our political climate has become increasingly filled with pernicious thinking and antagonistic rhetoric. In addition to discussing the advantages and disadvantages of technology as a tool (to organize or to spread disinformation) he gave the SU community a short history lesson to remind us about the founder\u2019s aims and the fragility of consensus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the current era of 24-hour news cycles and a first-class library at everyone\u2019s fingertips, it\u2019s good to occasionally pause and get a proper perspective. Last night Columbia University Professor and New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb said our political climate has become increasingly filled with pernicious thinking and antagonistic rhetoric. In addition to discussing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[84],"tags":[2569,1152,6018,64,334,1202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26260,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26258\/revisions\/26260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}