{"id":434,"date":"2018-02-13T21:52:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T21:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/?p=434"},"modified":"2018-02-13T21:52:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T21:52:21","slug":"availability-and-edibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/2018\/02\/13\/availability-and-edibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Availability and Edibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of all the contemplative practices we\u2019ve done, the one that has stuck out to me the most is the one based on hunger. I\u2019ve really only ever been dangerously hungry a few times, and usually it was out of negligence rather than a lack of food availability. That, in and of itself, speaks to the privilege I have of being able to access food readily whenever I would like\u2014and it\u2019s only getting easier. With delivery services like DoorDash<\/a>, Eat24 Yelp<\/a>, and GrubHub<\/a>, I don\u2019t even have to leave my home, and I can order more or less whenever (and whatever) I want. This all-hours access is really only available in developed countries, and not even everyone can access it.<\/p>\n

I thought a bit more about what it would be like to feel hungry all the time, intensely and painfully, and knowing that even if I did get something to eat, it would be meager, and might not even be absorbed into my system due to parasites or digestive problems caused by hunger. It is a vicious cycle, and it is appalling to think that it is simply a way of life for many people\u2014and many of them are here in America.<\/p>\n

My hope is that community gardens will become more plentiful in the years to come, as I think this is a relatively simple solution to implement, at least in the short-term. There are many great ones already serving their communities, and several robust programs like the Edible Schoolyard<\/a> project in Berkeley even bring community gardening to schools in \u201cfood deserts.\u201d These projects also teach children the responsibility of managing a garden, so they literally get to grow their own food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of all the contemplative practices we\u2019ve done, the one that has stuck out to me the most is the one based on hunger. I\u2019ve really only ever been dangerously hungry a few times, and usually it was out of negligence rather than a lack of food availability. That, in and of itself, speaks to the privilege I have of being… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[187,181,185,186,69],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professors-corner","tag-community-garden","tag-contemplative-practice","tag-delivery","tag-edible-schoolyard","tag-hunger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}