{"id":11829,"date":"2026-07-03T05:24:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T04:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/?p=11829"},"modified":"2026-07-03T05:24:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T04:24:26","slug":"why-do-we-all-do-what-we-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/news\/why-do-we-all-do-what-we-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do we all do what we do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given the state of the world, one can sometimes begin to doubt what purpose all of this work we do in the cultural sector still has. Perhaps Leonard Bernstein can help us overcome these doubts: \u201cThe point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change people.\u00a0[\u2026] And because people are changed by art\u2014enriched, ennobled, encouraged\u2014they then act in a way that\u00a0<em>may<\/em>\u00a0affect the course of events\u00a0&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the state of the world, one can sometimes begin to doubt what purpose all of this work we do\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"class_list":["post-11829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-july-august-2026"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11835,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11829\/revisions\/11835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}