{"id":179,"date":"2020-05-06T13:27:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T20:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst\/?p=179"},"modified":"2022-10-27T12:25:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T19:25:16","slug":"against-normalcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst\/2020\/05\/06\/against-normalcy\/","title":{"rendered":"Against Normalcy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>By Alison Taylor<\/h2>\n<h5>I write this series of blog posts as the Covid-19 pandemic moves into its third month and in response to media stories about &#8220;when things get back to normal.&#8221; It strikes me that the pandemic has shown us some of the cracks in systems; if taken seriously, it could spark fruitful discussion about what needs to change in our society.<\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst\/2020\/05\/06\/our-elders\/\">Part 1: Our Elders[1]<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst\/2020\/05\/06\/people-living-in-poverty\/\">Part 2: People living in poverty<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst\/2020\/05\/06\/a-climate-of-change\/\">Part 3: A climate of change?<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst\/2020\/05\/06\/working-students\/\">Part 4: Working students<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"post-header\"><\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/97513256@N06\/9044202624\">&#8220;Plant in dried cracked mud&#8221;<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/97513256@N06\">Aproximando Ci\u00eancia e Pessoas<\/a> is licensed under <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/?ref=ccsearch&amp;atype=rich\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alison Taylor I write this series of blog posts as the Covid-19 pandemic moves into its third month and in response to media stories about &#8220;when things get back to normal.&#8221; It strikes me that the pandemic has shown us some of the cracks in systems; if taken seriously, it could spark fruitful discussion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49750,"featured_media":180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[34,7,35,49,36,8],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-against-normalcy","category-blog-posts","tag-against-normalcy","tag-blog-posts","tag-covid-19","tag-faculty-posts","tag-pandemic","tag-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49750"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}