{"id":178736,"date":"2026-01-15T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/in-our-age-of-ai-and-constant-crisis-real-life-community-is-powerful-and-precious\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T14:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:05:11","slug":"in-our-age-of-ai-and-constant-crisis-real-life-community-is-powerful-and-precious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/in-our-age-of-ai-and-constant-crisis-real-life-community-is-powerful-and-precious\/","title":{"rendered":"in our age of AI and constant crisis, real-life community is powerful and precious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/friday-essay-in-our-age-of-ai-and-constant-crisis-real-life-community-is-powerful-and-precious-272047\">in our age of AI and constant crisis, real-life community is powerful and precious<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/friday-essay-in-our-age-of-ai-and-constant-crisis-real-life-community-is-powerful-and-precious-272047\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/friday-essay-in-our-age-of-ai-and-constant-crisis-real-life-community-is-powerful-and-precious-272047<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-15 13:42:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"theconversation.com\">theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The author reflects on personal happiness despite global issues, emphasizing the importance of her home, community, and family life.<\/li>\n<li>She contrasts ancient community-driven practices of sharing and respect with the individualism promoted by colonialism and capitalism.<\/li>\n<li>Having overcome a difficult childhood, the author credits her community for her success and believes in rebuilding community as an essential tool for change.<\/li>\n<li>The cost of living crisis challenges community building due to housing instability; however, digital connection offers some, but not adequate, substitute.<\/li>\n<li>The author advocates for real-world community building, highlighting its historical effectiveness against adversities and emphasizing its necessity, despite being intimidating.<\/li>\n<li>She shares a personal experience of initiating community building through regular family dinners, demonstrating that building community requires bravery and can be a powerful resource for human rights and social change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in our age of AI and constant crisis, real-life community is powerful and precious https:\/\/theconversation.com\/friday-essay-in-our-age-of-ai-and-constant-crisis-real-life-community-is-powerful-and-precious-272047&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/712542\/original\/file-20260115-56-53dwgz.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C547%2C6561%2C3280&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178738,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178736\/revisions\/178738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}