{"id":2011,"date":"2014-03-10T08:56:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T21:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/?p=2011"},"modified":"2014-03-19T19:11:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T08:11:24","slug":"please-go-change-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/please-go-change-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Please go change the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<address>World Bank President Jim Yong Kim recently gave a speech during a University lecture, titled: &#8216;What is to be done, and what will I do?&#8217;<\/address>\n<p>He wrapped up his talk one this fabulous note:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My great hope is that some of you answer it by working to end poverty, boost shared prosperity, and battle climate change. But whatever you do, please remember that the time is now for all of us to work together to bend the arc of history toward justice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The great anthropologist Margaret Mead once said, &#8220;Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it&#8217;s the only thing that ever has.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Be those citizens.Take it on. And please go change the world.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you very much.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/news\/speech\/2014\/03\/07\/world-bank-group-president-jim-yong-kim-brown-university\" target=\"_blank\">Remarks by World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim<\/a>, Ogden Lecture at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, March 7, 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Bank President Jim Yong Kim recently gave a speech during a University lecture, titled: &#8216;What is to be done, and what will I do?&#8217; He wrapped up his talk one this fabulous note: My great hope is that some of you answer it by working to end poverty, boost shared prosperity, and battle climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24,15],"class_list":["post-2011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff-that-matters","tag-civil-human-rights","tag-futurism-vs-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2037,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions\/2037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}