{"id":603,"date":"2015-01-02T17:36:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T22:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenhphelps.com\/?p=603"},"modified":"2015-01-12T17:46:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T22:46:39","slug":"how-you-function-when-you-cant-breathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephenhphelps.com\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"How You Function When You Can&#8217;t Breathe"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p>There is so much that is broken down in American society, in one sense it is easy to understand why so many are in denial.\u00a0 People are overwhelmed.\u00a0 Yet the denial is dangerous.\u00a0 Denial that racism bedevils us.\u00a0 Denial that police brutality is systemic.\u00a0 Denial of climate change.\u00a0 Denial of that economic inequality is destroying the fabric of our society.<\/p>\n<p>The Huffington Post recently <a title=\"How You Function When You Can't Breathe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/stephen-phelps\/how-you-function-when-you-cant-breathe_b_6357054.html\">published a post of mine<\/a>.\u00a0 You can read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/stephen-phelps\/how-you-function-when-you-cant-breathe_b_6357054.html\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 It describes a practice\u2013I call it eufunction\u2013which helps sustain more honest and deep-going insight and action while facing our crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Your comments will be helpful to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is so much that is broken down in American society, in one sense it is easy to understand why so many are in denial.\u00a0 People are overwhelmed.\u00a0 Yet the denial is dangerous.\u00a0 Denial that racism bedevils us.\u00a0 Denial that police brutality is systemic.\u00a0 Denial of climate change.\u00a0 Denial of that economic inequality is destroying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_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":[12,14,20,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-justice","category-economic-justice","category-environment","category-spiritual-practice"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenhphelps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenhphelps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenhphelps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenhphelps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenhphelps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenhphelps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenhphelps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenhphelps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenhphelps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenhphelps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}