{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Charles Cisco","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/charlescisco","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"1842661","username":"charlescisco","bio":"christian, husband, father, teacher, academic","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":12,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Charles Cisco","url":"https://charlescisco.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/50/1842661.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"81424188","content_html":"<p>Two quotations on time for the twelfth day of Christmas: <a href=\"https://social.charlescisco.org/2026/01/05/two-quotations-for-the-twelfth.html\">social.charlescisco.org</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://social.charlescisco.org/2026/01/05/two-quotations-for-the-twelfth.html","date_published":"2026-01-05T22:56:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Charles Cisco","url":"https://charlescisco.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1842661.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"charlescisco"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-05 22:56","date_timestamp":1767653798,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"80551504","content_html":"<p>Five Things (22 December 2025): <a href=\"https://social.charlescisco.org/2025/12/22/five-things-december.html\">social.charlescisco.org</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://social.charlescisco.org/2025/12/22/five-things-december.html","date_published":"2025-12-22T18:15:43+00:00","author":{"name":"Charles Cisco","url":"https://charlescisco.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1842661.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"charlescisco"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-12-22 18:15","date_timestamp":1766427343,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"80355294","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://blog.ayjay.org/escape-clause/\">In this post</a>, Alan Jacobs concludes with an insightful and concise hierarchy of technological tools:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Paper in preference to digital; flat files in preference to databases; cross-platform tools in preference to one-platform tools. This is the only way.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>I can’t speak for him, but behind this hierarchy I perceive a pair of countercultural but correct and urgent moral and intellectual conclusions: <em>we must own our data, and it must be portable.</em></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.charlescisco.org/2025/12/19/in-this-post-alan-jacobs.html","date_published":"2025-12-19T13:28:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Charles Cisco","url":"https://charlescisco.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1842661.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"charlescisco"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-12-19 13:28","date_timestamp":1766150939,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"80069021","content_html":"<p>After reading Simone Weil’s <em>The Need for Roots</em> (which is itself an inevitable result of reading enough Alan Jacobs, Matthew Crawford, and Paul Kingsnorth, who all cite her on various key points), I think this brief quote may summarize the weightiness and urgency of this book:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The acquisition of knowledge brings us closer to the truth when it is knowledge of what we love, and not in any other instance (Simone Weil, <em>The Need for Roots</em>, trans. Ros Schwartz [Penguin, 2023], 195).</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>The pressing question: how can <em>we</em> learn to love the our subjects, and, even more, teach our students to love them?</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://social.charlescisco.org/2025/12/15/after-reading-simone-weils-the.html","date_published":"2025-12-15T16:00:23+00:00","author":{"name":"Charles Cisco","url":"https://charlescisco.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1842661.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"charlescisco"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-12-15 16:00","date_timestamp":1765814423,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}}]}