{"id":463,"date":"2016-09-29T22:17:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T02:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev-the-digital-silk-road.pantheonsite.io\/?p=463"},"modified":"2016-09-29T22:17:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T02:17:12","slug":"old-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/silkworms\/old-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging has been hard to keep track of.\u00a0 I think I need to set an alarm or something to remember to do it.\u00a0 More and more I&#8217;m questioning my scheduling tactics&#8211;I don&#8217;t write anything down.\u00a0 I just rely on my own memory.\u00a0 How much more productive would I be if I scheduled out blocks of time to do specific things?\u00a0 Organization, I&#8217;m finding, is key to being a TA.\u00a0 I&#8217;m fairly organized, but there are certainly areas in which I&#8217;m lacking.<br \/>\nThis week I have greatly enjoyed the readings on Islam.\u00a0 We read a piece written by <span class=\"item_name\">Seyyed Hossein Nasr on Islamic religion and history, as well as some writings on and by Rumi.\u00a0 Islam is very unfamiliar to me, but what I read I loved!\u00a0 Many of the ideologies we read about reminded me of what I know about Hinduism.\u00a0 There is something about non-dualistic religions that strike me as beautiful.\u00a0 Islam is that, but pays particular attention to God.\u00a0 These readings hit close to home for me.\u00a0 More than that, they fueled a fire from within that I&#8217;ve left to dwindle over the last few years. <\/span><br \/>\nI first encountered Rumi in my yoga studies&#8211;there is always a Rumi poem that comes up in practice.\u00a0 It is cool to read about Rumi in a different context.\u00a0 In yoga, we only take what applies to our own life.\u00a0 In the context of Islam, every line is relevant.\u00a0 What does this say about the importance of presentation?\u00a0 Is it ethical to read the words of Rumi in all scenarios?\u00a0 How can I apply these thoughts to our map project?<br \/>\nThe project&#8230;isn&#8217;t going too hot at the moment.\u00a0 The Map Test really set us back.\u00a0 Hopefully this weekend we&#8217;ll be able to dig our teeth in and get a clear picture of where we are at before starting Fall Break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging has been hard to keep track of.\u00a0 I think I need to set an alarm or something to remember to do it.\u00a0 More and more I&#8217;m questioning my scheduling tactics&#8211;I don&#8217;t write anything down.\u00a0 I just rely on my own memory.\u00a0 How much more productive would I be if I scheduled out blocks of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/silkworms\/old-friend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Old Friend<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silkworms","category-team-heart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}