{"id":1842,"date":"2016-08-01T15:37:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T19:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2016-08-01T15:37:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T19:37:31","slug":"tiny-bubbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/tiny-bubbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Bubbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/sign.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1843 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/sign-400x300.jpeg\" alt=\"sign\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/sign-400x300.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/sign.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bubbles are derided as the refuge of elites who can afford to remain deaf to views and values counter to their own. But as once-marginal hate speech is given a national platform, it\u2019s critical to keep popping the bubble,\u00a0to step forward\u00a0and watch the ugliness of the world unspool. It may not lead to understanding, exactly\u2014some of it is simply incomprehensible\u2014but awareness is a virtue in itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After a week covering chaos around the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, I offered some thoughts about bubbles, and the merits of popping them, and then blowing them anew, at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2016\/07\/the-sunday-rumpus-essay-tiny-bubbles\/\">Sunday Rumpus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bubbles are derided as the refuge of elites who can afford to remain deaf to views and values counter to their own. But as once-marginal hate speech is given a national platform, it\u2019s critical to keep popping the bubble,\u00a0to step forward\u00a0and watch the ugliness of the world unspool. It may not lead to understanding, exactly\u2014some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/tiny-bubbles\/\">Continued<\/a><\/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-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1844,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/1844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}