{"id":619,"date":"2016-11-11T18:14:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T00:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mariehicks.net\/blog\/?p=619"},"modified":"2016-11-13T16:35:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T22:35:44","slug":"getting-your-bearings-if-you-were-surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/?p=619","title":{"rendered":"Getting your bearings if you were surprised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of an election that has chagrined many, I made up a list of 10 films for students in my &#8220;Disasters&#8221; course. My intent was to help them get a sense of why we are where we are today, in a way that wouldn&#8217;t require them to add to the mountains of reading and problem sets they already do for their courses.<\/p>\n<p>The list is below&#8211;they&#8217;re mostly documentaries. But not the boring kind. I decided to leave it handwritten, rather than type it up, because I think we could all use traces of each other as human beings right now. Plus, that way you can see my &#8220;Depress-o-meter&#8221; rating for each film (in the margin). I did that so you won&#8217;t end up watching something terribly depressing when you&#8217;re already crushed, as my students seemed to be this Wednesday\u00a0 when I saw them in class.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mariehicks.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/films1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-620\" title=\"films1\" src=\"http:\/\/mariehicks.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/films1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"825\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mariehicks.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/films2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-621\" title=\"films2\" src=\"http:\/\/mariehicks.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/films2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"868\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mariehicks.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/films31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-623\" title=\"films3\" src=\"http:\/\/mariehicks.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/films31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"347\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of an election that has chagrined many, I made up a list of 10 films for students in my &#8220;Disasters&#8221; course. My intent was to help them get a sense of why we are where we are today, in a way that wouldn&#8217;t require them to add to the mountains of reading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23,24,16,12,17,26,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-cultures","category-black-history","category-black-history-month","category-courses","category-digital-humanities","category-disasters","category-fun","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}