{"id":21,"date":"2013-11-20T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T00:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=21"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:51:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:51:37","slug":"why-am-i-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2013\/11\/20\/why-am-i-running\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why am I running?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2013\/11\/Why-Am-I-Running1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-37\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2013\/11\/Why-Am-I-Running1-807x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2013\/11\/Why-Am-I-Running1-807x1024.jpg 807w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2013\/11\/Why-Am-I-Running1-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About 1985,\u00a0 I conducted an oral history session with Lloyd N. Morrisett, then Director of the Markle Foundation in their Rockefeller Plaza offices.\u00a0\u00a0 While I was waiting for my appointment,\u00a0 I saw <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2013\/11\/Why-am-I-running.pdf\">this cartoon<\/a>\u00a0 on the receptionist&#8217;s\u00a0 personal bulletin board.\u00a0\u00a0 I liked it a lot and asked the if I could have a copy.\u00a0 She made one for me.\u00a0 I still like it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been on my office door for years.\u00a0\u00a0 Every now and then, when I pause to look at it, I ask myself why I do not look at it more often.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe it came to mind because I&#8217;ve been thinking about fatigue levels as we collectively stagger toward Thanksgiving Break.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in San Francisco for a Thomas Edison biography film shoot for the PBS &#8220;American Experience&#8221; series.\u00a0 Have a great weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Back on Monday<\/p>\n<p>john st sj<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 1985,\u00a0 I conducted an oral history session with Lloyd N. Morrisett, then Director of the Markle Foundation in their Rockefeller Plaza offices.\u00a0\u00a0 While I was waiting for my appointment,\u00a0 I saw this cartoon\u00a0 on the receptionist&#8217;s\u00a0 personal bulletin board.\u00a0\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2013\/11\/20\/why-am-i-running\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}