{"id":3755,"date":"2010-08-31T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?guid=becffb3d5aacbfe6f07c71cd883449d3"},"modified":"2010-08-31T19:30:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T00:30:31","slug":"getting-ready-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/08\/31\/getting-ready-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made appointments to get shots and malaria meds for the trip. &nbsp;I think of the anthropologist who does work in Haiti but felt helpless after the earthquake because he didn&#8217;t have medical skills to care for the injured. &nbsp;I wonder how many Haitians don&#8217;t have access to medical care and public health measures to prevent disease. &nbsp;This is part of my First World privilege.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina has come and gone. &nbsp;I recorded a slew of news shows and specials but haven&#8217;t watched them yet. <\/p>\n<p>I heard about Dominicans helping Haitians. &nbsp;They share one island and the disaster brought them together.<\/p>\n<p>Last, I&#8217;m reading the incredible book, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit. &nbsp;The essayist and social critic wrote the book before the horrors of the January earthquake in Haiti, but the response of the people makes her point, that people don&#8217;t turn on each other in dire circumstances, but engage in community, solidarity, and agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made appointments to get shots and malaria meds for the trip. &nbsp;I think of the anthropologist who does work in Haiti but felt helpless after the earthquake because he didn&#8217;t have medical skills to care for the injured. &nbsp;I wonder how many Hai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3755"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4330,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions\/4330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}