{"id":1924,"date":"2014-12-04T23:40:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T06:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/katiehatammmm\/?p=186"},"modified":"2014-12-04T23:40:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T06:40:12","slug":"cst-week-9-live-the-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/cst-week-9-live-the-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"CST Week 9 \u2013 Live the Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_188\" style=\"width: 300px;\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/katiehatammmm\/files\/2014\/12\/rollercoaster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-188\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/katiehatammmm\/files\/2014\/12\/rollercoaster-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"Sperling, Karen. Roller Coaster Dreams #8. n.d. www.karensperling.com. Web. 4 Dec. 2014.\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sperling, Karen. Roller Coaster Dreams #8. n.d. www.karensperling.com. Web. 4 Dec. 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Something happened in the maze, between entering it and leaving it, they lost their cares&#8230;As they neared the exit, they started to strategize about the best ride to go on next&#8221; (Doctorow, 362).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The ride is coming to an end. For most of us, it was worth every moment. But that doesn&#8217;t matter. We rode the ride. Bewildered, we started in the abstract, heading straight up the pike. At the pinnacle, we free-fell, hands up, at warp\u00a0speed through the conceptual. Enacted, yet enervated,\u00a0we finally arrived at the concrete. We laughed, and sometimes cried, and we lived to tell about it. We even got a souvenir to take home.\u00a0And it was fun, and scary, and exciting, and confusing, and intimidating, and frustrating, and weird, and familiar, and ours. It&#8217;s our story.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8216;Shut up&#8230;Don&#8217;t talk about magic. Live magic&#8217;&#8221; (Doctorow, 363).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something happened in the maze, between entering it and leaving it, they lost their cares&hellip;As they neared the exit, they started to strategize about the best ride to go on next&rdquo; (Doctorow, 362). The ride is coming to an end. For most of us, it was worth every moment. But that doesn&rsquo;t matter. We rode [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}