{"id":9,"date":"2018-09-07T02:22:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T02:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.makemydayusa.glamazon.net\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2023-03-29T22:41:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T06:41:46","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/glamazon.net\/journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Christine in Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHY AM I HERE?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a war of extremes raging. Until recently there&#8217;d usually been room for dialogue: those in the center had far outnumbered the polar extremes. Now the extremists eat their own&#8230; when they&#8217;re not screaming red-faced at the opposition. And everybody loses, except for those who benefit from the distraction. Nice going.<\/p>\n<p>Having watched us turn ourselves inside out since Vietnam, I&#8217;d feel remiss if I didn&#8217;t occasionally speak up. The rest of the time I plan to use this space to share  things, help a little if I can, and have some fun along the way.\u00a0 Join me.<\/p>\n<p>Christine D. Beatty<\/p>\n<p>P.S. As part of a massive re-org of my glamazon.net website I pulled the best articles, some going back to the 1990s, from an old subdomain and posted them here as &#8220;new&#8221; journal entries starting on 02\/22\/23. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHY AM I HERE? There&#8217;s a war of extremes raging. Until recently there&#8217;d usually been room for dialogue: those in the center had far outnumbered the polar extremes. Now the extremists eat their own&#8230; when they&#8217;re not screaming red-faced at the opposition. And everybody loses, except for those who benefit from the distraction. Nice going. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":385,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glamazon.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glamazon.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glamazon.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glamazon.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glamazon.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/glamazon.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/glamazon.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glamazon.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glamazon.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}