{"id":8955,"date":"2018-12-10T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu\/messenger\/?p=8955"},"modified":"2018-12-10T09:00:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T14:00:53","slug":"what-are-you-thankful-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/messenger\/2018\/12\/10\/what-are-you-thankful-for\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are You Thankful For?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhat are you thankful for?\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ever since my pre-kindergarten days, I have spurted out a rather programmed response, &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m thankful for my family; I\u2019m thankful for my friends; I\u2019m thankful for my pets.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The list prattled on as I said every tangible thing that budded from my head. But were these ideas truly budding and blossoming in the jelly-like tissue caged in my skull? I considered this as I sought out the list\u2019s composer. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ve come to the conclusion that the list I was assigned as a child strung together the tenets of society. Now, I\u2019m grateful for being conditioned. I\u2019m grateful for being told to appreciate the school I attended, to appreciate the chair I sat on, and to even appreciate the plain cheerios sailing in a bowl brimming with skim milk. Much like a cell receiving the proper signaling molecules, I was able to note the signals that society sent to me in hopes that I would be a functional member. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, I have followed suit for 19 years. I will continue to follow suit and treasure the \u201ctrivial\u201d things I am presented with. However, it\u2019s been almost 10 years since I\u2019ve written a gratitude list, and when I picked up a pen to write one this Thanksgiving, I diverted my thoughts from the roaring rushes of society into rivulets. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rivulets with a low velocity, rivulets that branch off in secluded parts of the mountains. I touched upon both the shared human feelings and the individual fusion that make me a unique and functional member of society. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So this Thanksgiving, I implore you to expand your elementary school list\u2014 you would be surprised to see what you find. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat are you thankful for?\u201d Ever since my pre-kindergarten days, I have spurted out a rather programmed response, &#8220;I\u2019m thankful for my family; I\u2019m thankful for my friends; I\u2019m thankful for my pets.&#8221; The list prattled on as I said every tangible thing that budded from my head. But were these ideas truly budding and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":9000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1596],"class_list":["post-8955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-opinions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}