{"id":8365,"date":"2013-08-23T07:32:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T14:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=8365"},"modified":"2013-08-23T07:32:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T14:32:26","slug":"ch-ch-ch-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=8365","title":{"rendered":"Ch-ch-ch-changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5012\" alt=\"userpic=old-shield\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicold-shield.gif\" width=\"68\" height=\"75\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>Change. It is all around us, usually in the bottom of the dryer because we forgot to take it out of a pants pocket. Here are three examples of change around us:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Change and Death<\/strong>. Social media is changing how we approach death. Recently, an NPR anchor tweeted from the bedside of his dying mother, and people were riveted. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2013\/08\/how-social-media-is-changing-the-way-we-approach-death\/278836\/?google_editors_picks=true\">an interesting article on the effects that social media is bringing<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Change and the Court.<\/strong> Society has gotten a lot less formal. People used to dress up for flying, for the theatre, and for church. They also used to dress for court dates, and even that&#8217;s going down the tube. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2013\/aug\/20\/las-vegas-courthouse-attire-appropriate-you-be-jud\/\">Here&#8217;s how the court in Las Vegas is dealing with it<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Change and Politics<\/strong>. Politics has changed. As everyone knows, we&#8217;ve become increasingly polarized (to the point where people bully the other side in political discussions). What to do about it? The answer for some folks: Secede. In particular, <a href=\"http:\/\/nation.time.com\/2013\/08\/22\/red-state-blue-state-old-state-new-state-northern-colorado-tries-to-secede\/?xid=gonewsedit&amp;google_editors_picks=true\">Northern Colorado would like to secede from the rest of the state<\/a>. They won&#8217;t succeed, but it does demonstrate the growing divide between urban populations and the rural populations. We&#8217;ve become two society, who can&#8217;t figure out how to live together, and absolutely abhor the leaders of the other side.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Music:<\/strong> <em>Stunt<\/em> (Barenaked Ladies): &#8220;When You Dream&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Change. It is all around us, usually in the bottom of the dryer because we forgot to take it out of a pants pocket. Here are three examples of change around us: Change and Death. Social media is changing how we approach death. Recently, an NPR anchor tweeted from the bedside of his dying mother, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=8365\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8366,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8365\/revisions\/8366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}