{"id":3289,"date":"2019-12-13T11:42:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T16:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/?p=3289"},"modified":"2019-12-13T11:43:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T16:43:47","slug":"transcript-what-is-natural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/2019\/12\/13\/transcript-what-is-natural\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcript: What is natural?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At what point is something natural?<\/p>\n<p>Was this helmet a part of nature before there was a beehive on it?<\/p>\n<p>Is this a piece that demonstrates an instance where nature triumphed over something human made?<\/p>\n<p>Was this helmet already natural?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve seen how trucks, things that are more-than-human and nonliving, can be a part of a larger process of creating energy while using energy.<\/p>\n<p>Trucks can be a part of a larger ecosystem that has energy and water running through it.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been told when a bird craps on my truck, it\u2019s good luck.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because there are still enough birds to do that?<\/p>\n<p>Is this beehive on a helmet good luck?<\/p>\n<p>Are we at the point where a truck is as natural as a bird?<\/p>\n<p>Where a helmet is as natural as a beehive?<\/p>\n<p>Where a city is as natural as a forest?<\/p>\n<p>Or are we still at the point where the human-made is separate from everything else?<\/p>\n<p>Can we finally see ourselves and where we live as part of nature?<\/p>\n<p>Or are we completely separate from nature?<\/p>\n<p>Are we at war with it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At what point is something natural? Was this helmet a part of nature before there was a beehive on it? Is this a piece that demonstrates an instance where nature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[526146],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3U3TZ-R3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3290,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions\/3290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}