{"id":5865,"date":"2020-04-19T14:48:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T18:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=5865"},"modified":"2020-04-19T14:48:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T18:48:26","slug":"impossible-reading-response-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/04\/19\/impossible-reading-response-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Impossible Reading Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The &#8220;Impossible&#8221; reading was an interesting read. It was very compelling and relatable especially with what is going on in our world right now. Something that stuck with me was when he said, &#8220;The problem is not that we have so little power. The problem is that we don\u2019t use the power that we have.\u201d This quote reminded me a lot of Nelson&#8217;s Mandela&#8217;s quote: &#8221; Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.&#8221; These sayings to me implies that we are able to do a great deal but we are afraid to take the responsibilities. It\u2019s easier not to be responsible. This is because most of our society is set up to reward conformity. This reading made me reflect on how I think about what I can do to make a change in the world even if it is on a small scale and even about change in general on a global scale as well as how huge of an impact activism can have. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Impossible&#8221; reading was an interesting read. It was very compelling and relatable especially with what is going on in our world right now. Something that stuck with me was when he said, &#8220;The problem is not that we have so little power. The problem is that we don\u2019t use the power that we have.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4690,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}