{"id":1046,"date":"2020-06-29T17:59:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T17:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2020-07-09T21:12:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T21:12:52","slug":"episode-28-finding-optimism-in-self-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/episode-28-finding-optimism-in-self-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 28: Education is a Form of Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Optimism+Learning<\/h5>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In t<\/span>he latest episode of Good Newscast our hosts Owen, Chelsea, and Andrew discuss finding hope, empathy, and perspective from historically underrepresented voices.<\/p>\n<p>We hear from guests Katrina Brooks, the owner of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackpearlbookstore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Pearl Books<\/a>, and Roberto and Lorena Germ\u00e1n, the founders of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.multiculturalclassroomconsulting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Multicultural Classroom<\/a>\u00a0on the importance of education and how personal growth leads to optimism.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew\u2019s historical perspective cites Thomas Paine\u2019s \u201cCrisis\u201d to\u00a0 illustrate how progress, even from crises, is inherently optimistic.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?episode_id=33706967&amp;theme=light&amp;cover_image_url=false&amp;playlist=show&amp;autoplay=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400px\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>New episodes of Good Newscast are published every month.<\/p>\n<p>For more inspiration and thought-starters around optimism, sign up for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/paidpost.texasmonthly.com\/sponsor\/frost\/texas-optimism-project\/good-newsletter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bi-weekly Good Newsletter.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the July episode of the Good Newscast, the hosts discuss finding hope, empathy, and perspective from historically underrepresented voices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}