{"id":7875,"date":"2022-06-25T07:46:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=7875"},"modified":"2022-06-25T07:46:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:46:57","slug":"a-brief-meditation-on-the-end-of-roe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/a-brief-meditation-on-the-end-of-roe\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief Meditation on the End of Roe"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-7875\" data-postid=\"7875\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-7875 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>The news arrived yesterday that the Supreme Court overturned Roe V Wade by a 6-3 vote and I thought about what that meant to my country. As of this writing, I have no idea. I do know from my long study of American history that massive unforeseen backlashes with terrible consequences occasionally result with momentous changes. Think the election of Barack Obama = election of Donald Trump. End of Reconstruction = resurgence of the KKK. So what will be the unexpected backlash to the Right with this decision? There will be one. I don&#8217;t think anyone can predict it yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It almost feels beyond comprehension to realize the sequence of historical events the past decade or so: the election of a Black man as President; legalization of gay marriage; legalization of cannabis (in many states); the 2020 summer protests; catastrophic homelessness; a Supreme Court ruling that declared corporations are people; the rise of mass shootings; the election of Donald Trump; the exponential growth and disease of social media; an attempted coup; two impeachment trials; a Pandemic; cataclysmic forest fires, including the one that almost burned down Estacada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know where we are headed as a nation, but it seems we&#8217;re on the precipice of permanent division. Just think of all the celebratory sermons from the pulpits Sunday morning and the giddy potlucks with casseroles to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And my writing seems increasingly more irrelevant to anything but keeping my creative mind active.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news arrived yesterday that the Supreme Court overturned Roe V Wade by a 6-3 vote and I thought about what that meant to my country. As of this writing, I have no idea. I do know from my long study of American history that massive unforeseen backlashes with terrible consequences occasionally result with momentous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7878,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875\/revisions\/7878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}