{"id":720,"date":"2016-07-22T05:17:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T05:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oralhistoryworks.org\/?p=720"},"modified":"2016-08-02T15:07:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T15:07:01","slug":"existential-cathexis-patriotism-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oralhistoryworks.org\/existential-cathexis-patriotism-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Existential Cathexis: Patriotism (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/257638863&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Existential Cathexis:<br \/>\nPatriotism<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>By Geraldo Jay Scala, 2015<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em> Listen to this edited audio piece through <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/oralhistory_columbia\/geraldo-jay-scala\">OHMA&#8217;s SoundCloud channel<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The following audio piece features Ed Shevlin, a robust, straight talking, tattooed Irish American man from Far Rockaway, Queens. Shevlin is a New York City sanitation worker and local celebrity, recognized for rescuing discarded or unwanted American flags in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in 2012. He has become somewhat of a neighborhood hero for pulling flags out of the garbage and organizing community gatherings where individuals bring their unwanted flags to be delivered to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, where they are ceremonially burned.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-94 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oralhistoryworks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Geraldo-Scala-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Geraldo Scala\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><em><strong>Geraldo Jay Scala<\/strong> is currently a freelance musician, writer, and aspiring oral historian. He has a bachelor\u2019s degree in political science and philosophy from Columbia University. Geraldo recently finished a master\u2019s degree at New York University\u2019s Draper Program in Humanities and Social Thought in August of 2015, completing a thesis entitled, \u201cSocially Inclusive Approaches to Addiction: The Stories of Sanitation Workers in Recovery.\u201d Geraldo\u2019s research interests include continental philosophy, political economy, phenomenology, existentialism, ethnography, urban anthropology, oral history, social exclusion, and substance abuse. His geographic focus is on the continental United States, particularly inner cities and suburbia.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Existential Cathexis: Patriotism By Geraldo Jay Scala, 2015 Listen to this edited audio piece through OHMA&#8217;s SoundCloud channel The following audio piece features Ed Shevlin, a robust, straight talking, tattooed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[180,183,135,178,176,179,57,182,88,177,13,181],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-american-flags","tag-cermonial-burning","tag-community","tag-ed-schevlin","tag-edited-audio","tag-geraldo-jay-scala","tag-hurricane-sandy","tag-kings-point","tag-new-york-city","tag-queens","tag-sanitation-worker","tag-u-s-merchant-marine-academy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oralhistoryworks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oralhistoryworks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oralhistoryworks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oralhistoryworks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oralhistoryworks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oralhistoryworks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"http:\/\/www.oralhistoryworks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oralhistoryworks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oralhistoryworks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oralhistoryworks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oralhistoryworks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}