{"id":8138,"date":"2017-03-17T15:43:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T22:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannarisse.com\/blog\/?p=8138"},"modified":"2020-11-21T14:17:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T21:17:33","slug":"art-and-empathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/art-and-empathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Art and Empathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The other day juniper couldn&#8217;t sleep. She was distraught and frustrated. I got into bed with her and when she started expressing her frustration I would say &#8220;it&#8217;s ok, it doesn&#8217;t matter. You don&#8217;t have to worry about sleeping. You don&#8217;t have to go to sleep right now. Just enjoy being in my arms right now.&#8221; We were both asleep in minutes. When I woke up, I felt like we had somehow repaired a tear in the fabric of the universe. I felt like a little part of me was healing and a little part of juniper was getting something that just might last her a lifetime. All it took was my act of love, patience and understanding, and her acceptance of it and trust in me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I was proud of myself right then and I wondered&#8230; how did I learn the patience and empathy to see this was the right thing to do? I think this is what art and curiosity has taught me. This ability to put yourself in someone else&#8217;s shoes and try to give them what will help them, is not expressed in mainstream media enough. It needs to be injected into our daily lives however we can find a way, so we learn how to be good to others. Public education, art, public access television, offer us plenty solid examples of humanity doing things right in this crazy world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fKy7ljRr0AA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day juniper couldn&#8217;t sleep. She was distraught and frustrated. I got into bed with her and when she started expressing her frustration I would say &#8220;it&#8217;s ok, it doesn&#8217;t matter. You don&#8217;t have to worry about sleeping. You don&#8217;t have to go to sleep right now. Just enjoy being in my arms right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8140,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138\/revisions\/8140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}