{"id":308,"date":"2026-07-30T22:36:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T22:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/?p=308"},"modified":"2026-07-30T22:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T22:36:46","slug":"when-theres-a-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/when-theres-a-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"When there\u2019s a crisis\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the fear: You fear that every crisis will leave a scar, or unpick an old one, and you\u2019ll be left with a build up of scars that taint you forever. You might ask:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHow can we possibly make any progress when we\u2019re having all these crises?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But of course\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think I first saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todepond.com\/sky\/crisis\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.todepond.com\/sky\/crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this brief essay<\/a> passed round on the blue hellbird alternative a fair while back and due to me spending the past I don\u2019t know how long careering from dealing with one crisis towards another, I\u2019ve found it a handy one to keep around. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(With apologies because I can\u2019t remember who shared it into my timeline in the first place. Thanks tho, mysterious stranger!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There isn\u2019t really much in the essay that I wasn\u2019t already aware of but it\u2019s been really reassuring to reread every now and then when I need a blunt reminder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the fear: You fear that every crisis will leave a scar, or unpick an old one, and you\u2019ll be left with a build up of scars that taint you forever. You might ask: \u201cHow can we possibly make any progress when we\u2019re having all these crises?\u201d But of course\u2026 I think I first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[97,96,98],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-advice","tag-crisis","tag-essays"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}