{"id":479,"date":"2014-11-03T12:25:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T17:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/?p=479"},"modified":"2014-11-03T12:25:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T17:25:18","slug":"creativity-breadcrumb-28-civil-disobedience-and-expedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2014\/11\/03\/creativity-breadcrumb-28-civil-disobedience-and-expedition\/","title":{"rendered":"Creativity Breadcrumb 28: Civil Disobedience and Expedition"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>fsg_json['fsg_post_479'] = [\n{id: 475, image: 'http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/10\/07MOUN-master1050.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/10\/07MOUN-master1050-290x290.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2014\/11\/03\/creativity-breadcrumb-28-civil-disobedience-and-expedition\/07moun-master1050\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>07MOUN-master1050<\/h1><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2014\/11\/03\/creativity-breadcrumb-28-civil-disobedience-and-expedition\/07moun-master1050\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'}\n];<\/script>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"color: #333333\"><em style=\"color: #555555\">food for creative making, doing, and thinking<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_475\" style=\"width: 1060px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a data-postid=\"fsg_post_479\" data-imgid=\"475\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/10\/07MOUN-master1050.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-475\" class=\"size-full wp-image-475\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/10\/07MOUN-master1050.jpg\" alt=\"View from &quot;Mount Thoreau&quot; Photograph by Christopher Woodcock Source: nytimes.com\" width=\"1050\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/10\/07MOUN-master1050.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/10\/07MOUN-master1050-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/10\/07MOUN-master1050-1024x420.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from &#8220;Mount Thoreau&#8221;<br \/>Photograph by Christopher Woodcock<br \/>Source: nytimes.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"color: #333333\">Up in the Sierra Nevada range, between the Wonder Lakes Basin and Mount Emerson, sits a\u00a012, 691-foot\u00a0mountain that has been deemed unnamed by the government since 1964, as the mountain lies in a &#8220;federal wilderness area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"color: #333333\">Disgruntled by the government&#8217;s stubbornness, however, &#8220;a group of 11 writers, printmakers, poets, wilderness enthusiasts, Thoreau devotees and fellow travellers&#8221; set out on a mission not only to climb to the summit of the mountain, but also to name in &#8220;Mount Thoreau,&#8221; for the legendary writer. In doing so, the group would be taking part in a &#8220;minor act of civil disobedience,&#8221; a term explored by Thoreau in his essay with the same title. In the essay, Thoreau criticizes government&#8217;s involvement in the daily affairs of Americans and claims &#8220;<span style=\"color: #000000\">That government is best which governs not at all.&#8221; Thoreau also believes that American citizens have the right not only to criticize this government, but to challenge it based on their own rights and reason. Thoreau states, &#8220;<\/span>I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"color: #333333\">It is in this spirit that this group of explorers, writers and intellectuals pursued the naming of &#8220;Mount Thoreau,&#8221; and continue to challenge the government and its restrictions on nature and expression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"color: #333333\">To read more about the expedition, view <a title=\"Thoreau\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/07\/science\/earth\/a-mountain-to-honor-thoreau-.html\" target=\"_blank\">the article<\/a> on the NY Times website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"color: #333333\">Also be sure to read\u00a0Thoreau&#8217;s <a title=\"Civil Disobedience\" href=\"http:\/\/thoreau.eserver.org\/civil1.html\" target=\"_blank\">short essay<\/a> &#8220;Civil Disobedience&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>food for creative making, doing, and thinking Up in the Sierra Nevada range, between the Wonder Lakes Basin and Mount Emerson, sits a\u00a012, 691-foot\u00a0mountain that has been deemed unnamed by <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2014\/11\/03\/creativity-breadcrumb-28-civil-disobedience-and-expedition\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about Creativity Breadcrumb 28: Civil Disobedience and Expedition<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3743,"featured_media":475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}