{"id":19386,"date":"2017-11-16T17:43:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T22:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=19386"},"modified":"2017-11-16T17:43:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T22:43:41","slug":"november-16-2017-guilty-social-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=19386","title":{"rendered":"November 16, 2017 – Guilty Social Conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m packing up for Myanmar\/Burma this weekend. A few weeks ago I mentioned how I was feeling really conflicted<\/a> about going to run the Bagan Temple Marathon.\u00a0 It’s a global shame considering ethnic cleansing and genocide seem to be the order of the day, week, month, year at present over there.<\/p>\n

I haven’t gotten any less conflicted. I was having drinks with some friends last night celebrating the birth of one of the greats (Happy birthday, Pierluigi!). When people asked me where my next race was, I found myself apologizing profusely and rambling about how guilty I was feeling about flying to Rangoon.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, my miserly cheapskate-ness trumps my social conscience. Everything is paid for already so if I’ve already contributed to that regime’s economy, by NOT going all I am doing is denying myself the trip; it’s not like I could claw back the money that’s gone into the country’s coffers. Maybe if I go I can see something, post something, and raise awareness about the place, about what’s going on.\u00a0 I suspect the itinerary will highlight the best side of Myanmar but I’ll keep my eyes open and my camera’s lens cap off.<\/p>\n

On this trip I think I might be the complicit bad guy. That’s a tough thing to see when I look in the mirror.<\/p>\n

Sigh. First world problems for me; all world problems for the ongoing persecution of the Rohingya Muslims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m packing up for Myanmar\/Burma this weekend. A few weeks ago I mentioned how I was feeling really conflicted about going to run the Bagan Temple Marathon.\u00a0 It’s a global shame considering ethnic cleansing and genocide seem to be the order of the day, week, month, year at present over there. I haven’t gotten any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}