{"id":1010,"date":"2014-10-23T21:28:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T21:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2014-10-23T21:28:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T21:28:22","slug":"just-a-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/2014\/10\/23\/just-a-minute\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a Minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day while in a cab in Washington DC,\u00a0my driver started reciting\u00a0Benjamin Mays&#8217; <em>Just a Minute <\/em>immediately after he rushed through a yellow traffic light&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Only sixty seconds in it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Forced upon me, can\u2019t refuse it,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Didn\u2019t seek it, didn\u2019t choose it,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>But it\u2019s up to me to use it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>I must suffer if I lose it,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Give an account if I abuse it,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Just a tiny little minute,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>But eternity is in it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I had never heard this poem before but it struck me. Every single minute matters and every single minute must be maximized. The negotiations of COP20 need to maximize each minute. There are strong hopes that the outcome of Lima will not be one similar to that in Durban. It is essential that texts are negotiated and ready to go for COP 21 in Paris, 2015. <strong>The time is now<\/strong><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day while in a cab in Washington DC,\u00a0my driver started reciting\u00a0Benjamin Mays&#8217; Just a Minute immediately after he rushed through a yellow traffic light&#8230; Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can\u2019t refuse it, Didn\u2019t seek it, didn\u2019t choose it, But it\u2019s up to me to use it. I must suffer if &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/2014\/10\/23\/just-a-minute\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Just a Minute&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2123,"featured_media":1011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77135],"tags":[1301,100754,42301,100671,22],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mosaic","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-change-and-society","tag-climate-change-mosaic","tag-cop20","tag-dickinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}