{"id":7582,"date":"2015-02-27T02:42:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T02:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2015\/02\/27\/think-for-a-second-how-many-scenes-during-the\/"},"modified":"2015-02-27T02:42:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T02:42:43","slug":"think-for-a-second-how-many-scenes-during-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2015\/02\/27\/think-for-a-second-how-many-scenes-during-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Think for a second. How many scenes during the series \u2014 hell, per episode \u2014 simply feature one character encouraging another? Or how about when Leslie votes for herself for councilwoman in the fourth season finale? The show simply lets the moment play out, as we watch her softly cry in the voting booth. We know how hard she\u2019s worked, the decisions she\u2019s made. It\u2019s a rare, beautiful moment to watch someone get even a fleeting glimpse at a moment she\u2019s been imagining her whole life, and we share in her triumph, awaiting the day that that will happen to us too. If, like those studies say, we need at least eight hugs per day, then any given episode of Parks and Recreation fills at least half that requirement. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>In a general sense, \u2018the American Dream\u2019 is an impossible ambition, a vague concept of your ideal life, but it\u2019s often sold as an achievable end goal, something to spend your life working toward. The brilliance of Parks and Recreation is that it both stuck to that ideal and made it infinitely more grounded. It re-characterizes the American Dream as something simple but true: being surrounded by those who love and support you, while you do what you love to help your community.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/splitsider.com\/2015\/02\/the-idealistic-legacy-of-parks-and-recreation\/\">The Idealistic Legacy of <i>Parks and Recreation<\/i><\/a><br \/> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ephemeralness.tumblr.com\/\">ephemeralness<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think for a second. How many scenes during the series \u2014 hell, per episode \u2014 simply feature one character encouraging another? Or how about when Leslie votes for herself for councilwoman in the fourth season finale? The show simply lets the moment play out, as we watch her softly cry in the voting booth. We &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2015\/02\/27\/think-for-a-second-how-many-scenes-during-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4304,4306,4305,2187],"class_list":["post-7582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aw-crap","tag-dont-judge","tag-i-cant-bear-myself-to-watch-the-last-season-yet","tag-parks-and-rec","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}