{"id":2811,"date":"2011-05-04T17:39:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T21:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2011-05-04T17:39:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T21:39:56","slug":"coffee-conversation-riffs-from-other-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/2011\/05\/04\/coffee-conversation-riffs-from-other-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee &amp; Conversation: Riffs from Other Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You should have been there! The coffee and the convo was hot during the last three Coffee and Conversation gatherings \u2013 they were like jam sessions.\u00a0 We had the smooth-me-sway-me-play-your-ish music party; a visit from the good folk at the <a title=\"MTV Staying Alive Foundation\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/foundation.staying-alive.org\/en\/about\/meet_the_team\" target=\"_blank\">MTV Staying Alive Foundation<\/a> and <a title=\"MTV Ignite - Shuga\" href=\"http:\/\/ignite.staying-alive.org\/kenya\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MTV Ignite<\/a>; and, an impromptu and heartfelt conversation about expression in the post-bin Laden world. All I can say is: dopeness!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/dos\/files\/2011\/05\/Untitled2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2812\" title=\"Untitled2\" src=\"\/dos\/files\/2011\/05\/Untitled2.png\" alt=\"Untitled2\" width=\"431\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More dopeness. Check out Adam Engel\u2019s follow up riff, <a title=\"BU Culture Shock\" href=\"http:\/\/bucultureshock.com\/?p=9415\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Adding Some Shuga to Coffee and Conversation<\/em><\/a>, from the <a title=\"BU Culture Shock\" href=\"http:\/\/bucultureshock.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BU Culture Shock<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/dos\/files\/2011\/05\/Untitled1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2813\" title=\"Untitled1\" src=\"\/dos\/files\/2011\/05\/Untitled1-370x300.png\" alt=\"Untitled1\" width=\"370\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/files\/2011\/05\/Untitled1-370x300.png 370w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/files\/2011\/05\/Untitled1.png 431w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even more dopeness. My mom called to let me know <a title=\"WBUR\" href=\"http:\/\/hereandnow.wbur.org\/2011\/05\/03\/september-generation-laden\" target=\"_blank\">WBUR<\/a> and <a title=\"NPR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/05\/03\/135963042\/college-students-react-to-\" target=\"_blank\">NPR<\/a> covered your impromptu <a title=\"Twitter - #buconvo\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search\/%23buconvo\" target=\"_blank\">#buconvo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Keep the convo going.<\/p>\n<p>Peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You should have been there! The coffee and the convo was hot during the last three Coffee and Conversation gatherings \u2013 they were like jam sessions.\u00a0 We had the smooth-me-sway-me-play-your-ish music party; a visit from the good folk at the MTV Staying Alive Foundation and MTV Ignite; and, an impromptu and heartfelt conversation about expression [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2814,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions\/2814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}