{"id":1849,"date":"2011-09-08T08:37:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T12:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2013-09-13T20:03:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T00:03:05","slug":"dancing-in-the-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1849","title":{"rendered":"Dancing in the Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was so bummed out about Obama failing to veto the Tar Sands Bill and allowing the gutting of the Clean Air standards, that I just wanted to give up on politics.\u00a0 So I called my friend Beverly, whose political judgement I trust and she said \u201cHave you seen what\u2019s happening in Israel?\u201d\u00a0 She\u2019d sent me a link a few days back, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/activestills\/6096789637\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\">people dancing in the streets in Tel Aviv<\/a>, and then she sent me another one as we were talking.\u00a0 I went to the computer, clicked the link and found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2011\/09\/04\/1013539\/-My-Mind-Was-Blown-By-What-I-Witnessed-Last-Night--Come-See-It-With-Me?via=search\" target=\"_blank\">Daphni Leef\u2019s speech<\/a>.\u00a0 I started to cry.\u00a0 Democracy may be strangled, almost dead, buried under the weight of corporations and the super-wealthy, in the United States, but it\u2019s alive and well on Planet Earth!<\/p>\n<p>Dancing in the Streets has long been my image for Peace, whenever I visualize it.\u00a0 Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a book called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbaraehrenreich.com\/dancinginthestreets.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Dancing in the Streets<\/a>&#8221; in which she shows that the disorder once known as &#8220;melancholia&#8221; (now known as &#8220;depression&#8221;) has been rising in proportion to the loss of public celebrations.\u00a0 She describes the book in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neskaya.com\/dancehealing.html#Ehrenreich\" target=\"_blank\">Op-Ed piece from the NewYork Times<\/a>, Published: June 3, 2007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was so bummed out about Obama failing to veto the Tar Sands Bill and allowing the gutting of the Clean Air standards, that I just wanted to give up on politics.\u00a0 So I called my friend Beverly, whose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1849\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,19,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-healing","category-interesting-link","category-present-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}