{"id":40285,"date":"2014-06-09T11:38:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T18:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=40285"},"modified":"2014-06-13T11:35:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T18:35:21","slug":"sonali-kolhatkars-tedx-talk-my-journey-from-astrophysicist-to-radio-host-or-how-i-found-meaning-in-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/06\/09\/sonali-kolhatkars-tedx-talk-my-journey-from-astrophysicist-to-radio-host-or-how-i-found-meaning-in-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonali Kolhatkar&#8217;s TEDx Talk: My Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host or How I Found Meaning In My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/sonali_tedx_talk.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><em>Will living a life of meaning make us happier? Probably not! And that is okay. Give me life, liberty, and the pursuit of meaning. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sonali Kolhatkar is the host and Executive Producer of Uprising, a daily drive-time radio program produced at KPFK Pacifica in Los Angeles, and a columnist at Truthdig.com. <\/p>\n<p>She is also the co-Director of the Afghan Women&#8217;s Mission, a non-profit organization that works in solidarity with Afghan women. <\/p>\n<p>She is the author of Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence. Sonali has a Masters Degree in Astrophysics from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.<\/p>\n<p>Watch a video of Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar speaking at Moorpark College&#8217;s Tedx Talk here: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"477\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rqzi9hYCVTU?list=PLsRNoUx8w3rOQmngDVp64YHDY887DnfRo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/sonali_tedx_talk.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><em>Will living a life of meaning make us happier? Probably not! And that is okay. Give me life, liberty, and the pursuit of meaning.<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch a video of Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar speaking at Moorpark College&#8217;s Tedx Talk here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rqzi9hYCVTU&#038;list=PLsRNoUx8w3rOQmngDVp64YHDY887DnfRo&#038;feature=share&#038;index=2\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1i9s4I1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-featured-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40371,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40285\/revisions\/40371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}