{"id":40689,"date":"2022-11-28T06:30:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=40689"},"modified":"2022-11-27T19:00:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T06:00:32","slug":"a-quote-for-our-times-from-ursula-k-le-guin-1929-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2022\/11\/28\/a-quote-for-our-times-from-ursula-k-le-guin-1929-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quote for Our Times From Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929 &#8211; 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>&#8220;Hard times are coming, when we&#8217;ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We&#8217;ll need writers who can remember freedom &#8212; poets, visionaries &#8212; realists of a larger reality.&#8221;<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>~ Ursula K Le Guin, 1929 &#8211; 2018<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~*~<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m at a critical stage with the WALL #4 writing right now, hence no profound or indepth post today &#8212; but when it comes to profound and insightful, it&#8217;s hard to look past the legacy of Ursula K Le Guin. This quote speaks to our times, so I leave it with you, to absorb and reflect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hard times are coming, when we&#8217;ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We&#8217;ll need writers who can remember freedom &#8212; poets, visionaries &#8212; realists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-writing","category-funstuff","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40692,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40689\/revisions\/40692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}