{"id":26,"date":"2009-05-05T20:00:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/05\/hope-and-fear-swine-flu-edition.html"},"modified":"2009-05-05T20:00:20","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T20:00:20","slug":"hope-and-fear-swine-flu-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/hope-and-fear-swine-flu-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"Hope and Fear: Swine Flu Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check out this awesome graphic composed by I.D. Project’s <\/a> very own Juan Carlos Castro:<\/p>\n

\"hopefear8dharmas.jpg\"<\/span> <\/p>\n

So, turns out – according to U.S. Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, that Swine Flu is less severe than feared.<\/a><\/div>\n


\nOh well. I’m quite happy we won’t have over 3% of the human race dying like we did in 1918 (at least not this season). And Joe Biden’s family can ride the subway again<\/a>. But the part of me that likes to get amped up on daily media doses of hope and fear is a bit let down right now. Maybe it plays into my secret apocalyptic fantasy to fancy myself important enough to live at the end of days. And we never got to the bottom of how the flu got started <\/a>in the first place.<\/p>\n

One good thing, at least everyone will stop ostracizing Mexican people<\/a>. Oh wait, that’s probably not going to happen.<\/p>\n

The above graphic refers to a Buddhist teaching (one of my favorites), usually called the Eight Worldly Dharmas<\/a>. I can’t tell you how bad I think that translation blows. I would say the best translation would be “The Eight Traps of Hope and Fear.” Kind of sums it all up doesn’t it? Where does the swine flu fit in this framework? What’s your favorite trap?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Check out this awesome graphic composed by I.D. Project’s  very own Juan Carlos Castro: So, turns out – according to U.S. Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, that Swine Flu is less severe than feared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everybody-hurts"],"yoast_head":"\nHope and Fear: Swine Flu Edition - One City<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/hope-and-fear-swine-flu-edition.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hope and Fear: Swine Flu Edition - One City\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Check out this awesome graphic composed by I.D. Project’s  very own Juan Carlos Castro: So, turns out – according to U.S. Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, that Swine Flu is less severe than feared.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/hope-and-fear-swine-flu-edition.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"One City\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-05-05T20:00:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/files\/import\/hopefear8dharmas.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ethan Nichtern\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Hope and Fear: Swine Flu Edition - One City","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/hope-and-fear-swine-flu-edition.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Hope and Fear: Swine Flu Edition - One City","og_description":"Check out this awesome graphic composed by I.D. Project’s  very own Juan Carlos Castro: So, turns out – according to U.S. Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, that Swine Flu is less severe than feared.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/hope-and-fear-swine-flu-edition.html","og_site_name":"One City","article_published_time":"2009-05-05T20:00:20+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/files\/import\/hopefear8dharmas.jpg"}],"author":"Ethan Nichtern","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/hope-and-fear-swine-flu-edition.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/hope-and-fear-swine-flu-edition.html","name":"Hope and Fear: Swine Flu Edition - One City","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/hope-and-fear-swine-flu-edition.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/hope-and-fear-swine-flu-edition.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/files\/import\/hopefear8dharmas.jpg","datePublished":"2009-05-05T20:00:20+00:00","dateModified":"2009-05-05T20:00:20+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/#\/schema\/person\/52c98770e14a482ace0de36ea672938f"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/hope-and-fear-swine-flu-edition.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/hope-and-fear-swine-flu-edition.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/hope-and-fear-swine-flu-edition.html#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/files\/import\/hopefear8dharmas.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/files\/import\/hopefear8dharmas.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/hope-and-fear-swine-flu-edition.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hope and Fear: Swine Flu Edition"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/","name":"One City","description":"The Interdependence Project","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/#\/schema\/person\/52c98770e14a482ace0de36ea672938f","name":"Ethan Nichtern","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/13e\/13ee2d28169053f9c0745fa2e72f15b7x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/13e\/13ee2d28169053f9c0745fa2e72f15b7x96.jpg","caption":"Ethan Nichtern"},"description":"Ethan Nichtern is the author of the acclaimed book One City: A Declaration of Interdependence (Wisdom Publications, 2007) and is currently finishing a novel. His writing has been featured in numerous print and online publications. He is the founding director of the Interdependence Project and the host of the I.D. Project\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s popular weekly podcast (available on iTunes). He is currently on the part-time faculty of Eugene Lang College at New School University in NYC, where he teaches Buddhism. Ethan lectures regularly at universities and venues around the country on Buddhism, meditation, contemporary culture, and activism.","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/author\/enichtern"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}