{"id":10560,"date":"2020-04-10T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10560"},"modified":"2020-04-12T11:27:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T18:27:42","slug":"back-to-our-primal-selves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/10\/back-to-our-primal-selves\/","title":{"rendered":"Back To Our Primal Selves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/5f9c18b0003178b81b3858e6d52a6321\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from AP (opens in a new tab)\">from AP<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The howling: Americans let it out from depths of pandemic<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By DAVID ZALUBOWSKI and JAMES ANDERSON<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2hAJwI4gEV4\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>DENVER (AP) \u2014 It starts with a few people letting loose with some tentative yelps. Then neighbors emerge from their homes and join, forming a roiling chorus of howls and screams that pierces the twilight to end another day\u2019s monotonous forced isolation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From California to Colorado to Georgia and upstate New York, Americans are taking a moment each night at 8 p.m. to howl in a quickly spreading ritual that has become a wrenching response of a society cut off from one another by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They howl to thank the nation\u2019s health care workers and first responders for their selfless sacrifices, much like the balcony applause and singing in Italy and Spain. Others do it to reduce their pain, isolation and frustration. Some have other reasons, such as to show support for the homeless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/5f9c18b0003178b81b3858e6d52a6321\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at AP (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at AP<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from AP The howling: Americans let it out from depths of pandemic By DAVID ZALUBOWSKI and JAMES ANDERSON DENVER (AP) \u2014 It starts with a few people letting loose with some tentative yelps. Then neighbors emerge from their homes and join, forming a roiling chorus of howls and screams that pierces the twilight to end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}