{"id":989,"date":"2007-01-03T08:47:07","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T16:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2007\/01\/reclaiming_culture\/"},"modified":"2007-01-03T08:47:07","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T16:47:07","slug":"reclaiming_culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/reclaiming_culture.php","title":{"rendered":"Reclaiming &#8216;culture&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s <i>The Age<\/i> offers an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/editorial\/culture-a-word-to-celebrate-not-be-ashamed-of\/2007\/01\/02\/1167500120158.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1\">opinion on  &#8221;culture,&#8221;<\/a> hoping to reconnect a word that has become disconnected from the discussion of daily life. The piece claims &#8221;culture&#8221; &#8212; distinct from &#8221;the arts&#8221; or &#8221;being cultured&#8221; &#8212;  as universal, an unavoidable stream of experiences, memories, expressions, and conversations, integral to every action in  society:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nWe all carry culture within us; whether we wish to or not, it is as embedded in our minds as DNA is in our cell structure. Culture cannot be reduced to elemental terms, such as a painting on a wall or notes resounding in hall, but is a continuing series of experiences that affect every mind in a different way. In the end, culture is worth celebrating as a word, and as a condition not to be endured but used to educate and enliven.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But while culture is embedded in all of our lives, the article warns that we lose great opportunity if we let it spin unattended:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nBack in time, when there was time, acquiring cultural knowledge was considered a rite of passage, not something special or abstruse. People learned of the basic structures of language and history; how civilisations were founded, developed and fell, and how they are remembered through their cultures. It is the chain that binds humans through epochs of change, and we loosen its links at our peril.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s The Age offers an opinion on &#8221;culture,&#8221; hoping to reconnect a word that has become disconnected from the discussion of daily life. The piece claims &#8221;culture&#8221; &#8212; distinct from &#8221;the arts&#8221; or &#8221;being cultured&#8221; &#8212; as universal, an unavoidable stream of experiences, memories, expressions, and conversations, integral to every action in society: We all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989","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=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}