{"id":4,"date":"2022-06-12T21:09:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T21:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kajakipress.com\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2024-11-22T20:03:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T20:03:18","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kajakipress.com\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-query alignfull is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><ul style=\"text-transform:none\" class=\"alignfull wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1983 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-memoir category-philosophy category-testing tag-academic tag-afghan-american tag-chaos tag-college-campuses tag-gaza tag-heritage tag-identity tag-jewish-muslim tag-revolution\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\" style=\"padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1983 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-memoir category-philosophy category-testing tag-academic tag-afghan-american tag-chaos tag-college-campuses tag-gaza tag-heritage tag-identity tag-jewish-muslim tag-revolution\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kajakipress.com\/?p=1983\" target=\"_self\" >The House as Metaphor<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"font-size:14px\" class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Elina Ansary Last fall, shortly after I started my Master\u2019s degree in visual art at Cornell University, the bloody, genocidal chaos erupted in Gaza. 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It was a discomfiting time to be a Jewish Muslim Afghan American in&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kajakipress.com\/?p=1983\">Read more<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2026-02-12T22:48:25+00:00\">February 12, 2026<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1959 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-history category-memoir category-philosophy tag-eastern-oregon tag-peyote tag-stages-of-life-stone-age-pelton-dam\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kajakipress.com\/?p=1959\" target=\"_self\" >One Day at Pelton Dam<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"font-size:14px\" class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Tamim Ansary One day in the summer of 1973, I found myself wondering how my experience of life would have been different if I had been born 40,000 years earlier. 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