{"id":16255,"date":"2026-10-23T08:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T12:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/?p=16255"},"modified":"2026-10-23T08:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T12:49:06","slug":"humanities-forum-on-pain-avoidance-and-lowkey-despair-today-330pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/humanities-forum-on-pain-avoidance-and-lowkey-despair-today-330pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanities Forum on Pain Avoidance and Lowkey Despair- Today, 3:30pm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A conversation with author RJ Snell on the deep boredom and despair that pervades our culture, and how to build a happier life. Friday, 3:30pm, Ruane 105, reception to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/Untitled-October-22-2026-at-11.41.11-1024x576.png\" alt=\"RJ Snell at the Humanities Forum\" class=\"wp-image-16256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/Untitled-October-22-2026-at-11.41.11-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/Untitled-October-22-2026-at-11.41.11-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/Untitled-October-22-2026-at-11.41.11-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/Untitled-October-22-2026-at-11.41.11-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/Untitled-October-22-2026-at-11.41.11-1568x882.png 1568w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/Untitled-October-22-2026-at-11.41.11-1320x743.png 1320w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/Untitled-October-22-2026-at-11.41.11.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conversation with author RJ Snell on the deep boredom and despair that pervades our culture, and how to build a happier life. Friday, 3:30pm, Ruane 105, reception to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-todays-events","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16257,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16255\/revisions\/16257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}