{"id":2009,"date":"2012-11-07T10:08:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T15:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2013-01-17T12:25:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T17:25:36","slug":"civic-nap-then-back-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/civic-nap-then-back-to-work.php","title":{"rendered":"Civic nap, then back to work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2012\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/carlos-smith\/5571706813\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2012\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2012\" title=\"Back to work\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/pencil_zipper.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/pencil_zipper.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/pencil_zipper-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/pencil_zipper-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/pencil_zipper-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flickr user Carlos Smith<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After such a long, arduous, and contentious election season, we can all use a short civic nap today. Make it a power nap, at least for your individual citizen self, but before you nod off make a checklist of what your organizational self needs to do the moment you wake up.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Jay Dick on the ARTSblog of Americans for the Arts gives you <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.artsusa.org\/2012\/10\/26\/post-election-to-do-list\/\">a healthy head start on that to-do list<\/a>\u00a0(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomascott.com\/\">You&#8217;ve Cott Mail<\/a>, thanks).<\/p>\n<p>Essential next steps include a congratulatory contact from a grassroots constituent of your organization, a postal letter (yes postal letter) of congratulations on your letterhead, a contact to schedule a meeting, a consideration of at least one event to invite them to in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, I know, everyone else on earth will be doing the same. But\u00a0<em>your<\/em> efforts will be deeply sincere, respectful, compelling, and passionate. And, honestly, who can resist that combination.<\/p>\n<p>Set your nap alarm (60 minutes, tops), and get working when it goes off.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After such a long, arduous, and contentious election season, we can all use a short civic nap today. Make it a power nap, at least for your individual citizen self, but before you nod off make a checklist of what your organizational self needs to do the moment you wake up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}