{"id":3018,"date":"2016-06-05T01:14:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T06:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/?p=3018"},"modified":"2016-06-09T09:33:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T14:33:28","slug":"poke-provoke-confront-and-elevate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/2016\/06\/05\/poke-provoke-confront-and-elevate\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPoke, Provoke, Confront, Elevate\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing better captures my modus operandi than this quote from Yogi Bhajan. For 50 years as an organizer and teacher, I have used this strategy to confound individuals and groups, prodding them into a pursuit of personal and collective liberation. Too often, this pragmatic method comes with a dogmatic, \u201cother-worldly\u201d metaphysic; it need not. It is just a \u201cthis-worldly\u201d practice of adult education, unencumbered by any ideology.\u00a0\u200b<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/files\/2015\/11\/IMG_0431.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2948\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2948\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/files\/2015\/11\/IMG_0431.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0431\" width=\"1224\" height=\"1632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/files\/2015\/11\/IMG_0431.jpg 1224w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/files\/2015\/11\/IMG_0431-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/files\/2015\/11\/IMG_0431-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1224px) 100vw, 1224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing better captures my modus operandi than this quote from Yogi Bhajan. For 50 years as an organizer and teacher, I have used this strategy to confound individuals and groups, prodding them into a pursuit of personal and collective liberation. Too often, this pragmatic method comes with a dogmatic, \u201cother-worldly\u201d metaphysic; it need not. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3018"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3027,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions\/3027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}