{"id":1932,"date":"2014-11-21T08:41:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T06:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/11\/21\/i-think-hard-times-are-coming-when-we-will-be\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:19:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:19:12","slug":"i-think-hard-times-are-coming-when-we-will-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/11\/21\/i-think-hard-times-are-coming-when-we-will-be\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tumblr_nfds51iDmm1rrwkloo1_1280.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tumblr_nfds51iDmm1rrwkloo1_1280-500x242.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"242\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tumblr_nfds51iDmm1rrwkloo1_1280-500x242.png 500w, https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tumblr_nfds51iDmm1rrwkloo1_1280-100x48.png 100w, https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tumblr_nfds51iDmm1rrwkloo1_1280.png 641w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries\u2014the realists of a larger reality.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I haven\u2019t read much of Le Guin\u2019s work, but what I have impressed me by its great humanism. \u201cRealists of a larger reality\u201d is a great way to describe what attracts me in speculative fiction.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/parkerhiggins.net\/2014\/11\/will-need-writers-can-remember-freedom-ursula-k-le-guin-national-book-awards\/\">&#8220;We will need writers who can remember freedom&#8221;: Ursula K Le Guin at the National Book Awards &#8211; parker higgins dot net<\/a>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/11\/21\/i-think-hard-times-are-coming-when-we-will-be\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}