{"id":8569,"date":"2010-12-01T09:07:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T15:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=8569"},"modified":"2010-12-01T09:07:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T15:07:07","slug":"teaching-pigs-to-sing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=8569","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Pigs to Sing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samhain\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Thanksgiving Moon<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trying to get people to reason in a way that is not natural for them is like trying to teach a pig to sing. You don&#8217;t accomplish anything and you annoy the pig.&#8221; &#8211; E. Jeffrey Conklin and William Weil<\/p>\n<p>This seemed like a useful thought as we approach the opening of the 2011 legislative session.\u00a0 We need to change our message so that those in charge of the legislator can hear it and realize that safeguarding our environmental heritage is a non-partisan responsibility to our kids, our grandkids and their grandkids.<\/p>\n<p>More interviews today, more with talented people who want to work with the Sierra Club.<\/p>\n<p>Little new snow today so I don&#8217;t anticipate the crush this morning that I experienced yesterday.\u00a0 And more Big History on the drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samhain\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Thanksgiving Moon &#8220;Trying to get people to reason in a way that is not natural for them is like trying to teach a pig to sing. You don&#8217;t accomplish anything and you annoy the pig.&#8221; &#8211; E. Jeffrey Conklin and William Weil This seemed like a useful thought as we approach the opening &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=8569\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teaching Pigs to Sing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1980,9,100,1885],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-on-the-news","category-great-work","category-politics","category-us-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8581,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569\/revisions\/8581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}