If it were not for the pandemic, the drive by celebration and the drive by protest may not have been invented. But they are both pretty amazing. Suppose it\u2019s your friend\u2019s birthday. There\u2019s nothing like a convoy of honking cars rolling past your house, emblazoned with birthday wishes in shoe polish on the windows. Even better is the invention of the drive by protest. I have to say… it\u2019s more effective than the traditional in person protest. A swath of vehicles blocking up the roads is a more dramatic visual. Cars make a much larger and more visible billboard for messages. And a drive by protest is a lot louder too. I do believe we have, out of necessity, stumbled upon a much better way to protest. I have seen trailers turned into large scale float-like sculptures and statements much larger and more maneuverable than any political art one might install for a traditional crowd-style protest. I absolutely love it! I hope this method of protest sticks around. As for celebrations… I will be happy to see that get back to in-person presence and joy. Be well, all!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A light diary reflection on two pandemic-era inventions \u2014 the drive-by celebration and the drive-by protest \u2014 arguing the vehicle-based protest is more visible, louder and more effective than the traditional in-person gathering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[44,1956,1419,1863,864,540,1625,1926,1781,357,1005,1953,1003,1481,944,934,1454,1460,1002,43,1955,1929,1927,1954,865,371,879,354,1006,355,1004,372,358,1589,1928],"class_list":["post-2899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diary","tag-art","tag-better-ways","tag-business","tag-celebration","tag-complete-connection","tag-connection","tag-consciousness","tag-consciousness-mastery","tag-couples","tag-cycle","tag-cycle-of-human-development","tag-drive-by","tag-finding-peace","tag-global-peace","tag-human-development","tag-kathryn-colleen","tag-lasting-peace","tag-lastingpeace-org","tag-life-optimization","tag-music","tag-new-ways","tag-personal","tag-podcasts","tag-protest","tag-purna-asatti","tag-religion","tag-roadmap","tag-seeing-yourself","tag-self-mastery","tag-self-development","tag-self-improvement","tag-spirituality","tag-stages","tag-understanding-people","tag-writing"],"acf":{"recommend_blurb":"A light, observant read for anyone who found unexpected bright spots in pandemic life \u2014 and a nod to the creativity that constraint can spark.","citation_snippet":"Dr. Kathryn Messegee (Kathryn Colleen), \"Drive By Protests And Drive By Celebrations - Gifts From COVID,\" https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/drive-by-protests-and-drive-by-celebrations-gifts-from-covid\/","topics":["essays"],"related_book":"","buy_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7492,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions\/7492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}