{"id":11010,"date":"2019-04-30T11:18:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T15:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=11010"},"modified":"2019-04-30T11:18:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T15:18:21","slug":"proverbial-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2019\/04\/30\/proverbial-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Proverbial Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This finals season is most definitely a bag of bricks to the face. When your inner circle is slammed with assignments of their own and your family might not necessarily understand the heftiness of the \u201cMichigan difference,\u201d where do you turn for support? I tried proverbs.<\/p>\n<p>A common misconception is that proverbs are religious. Proverbs are short pithy phrases that state one general truth or a piece of advice. Here are some that felt particularly salient to this dreary day. Feel free to disagree with my projections of meaning.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf you bow at all, bow low.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re going to do something, don\u2019t give it any less than a 110% effort. Nothing done is worthwhile if there was no intent in the first place.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOne beam, no matter how big, cannot support an entire house on its own.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Leaning on others is inevitable. No one is immortal, all knowing, perfect, or fully self-sufficient.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cEvery step makes footprint.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I saw a dual-meaning in this one.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Effort, no matter how small, is still effort. Taking tasks one step at a time is admirable.<\/li>\n<li>Aggression, no matter how small, is still aggression. Think of the one thousand tiny cuts metaphor for micro-aggressions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>\u201cQui n\u2019avance pas, recule.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Who does not advance, recedes.\u00a0Aka, keep on keeping on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This finals season is most definitely a bag of bricks to the face. When your inner circle is slammed with assignments of their own and your family might not necessarily understand the heftiness of the \u201cMichigan difference,\u201d where do you turn for support? I tried proverbs. A common misconception is that proverbs are religious. Proverbs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11011,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010\/revisions\/11011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}