{"id":16221,"date":"2017-01-04T12:44:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T17:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=16221"},"modified":"2017-01-04T12:44:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T17:44:04","slug":"hope-and-goodness-was-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/hope-and-goodness-was-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHope and goodness\u201d was needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Re: Brock\u2019s Banter, December 22)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sitting over my second cup of coffee, feeling a little disillusioned about Christmas and people.<br \/>\nWe\u2026well, I\u2026tend to think these are the worst times of all because we have such instant communication through social media and we seem to crave bad news . And, there\u2019s no want of that. I picked up The Auroran and headed straight for your editorial. Well, this time you outdid yourself.<br \/>\nI have just returned from a cruise through Antarctica where our planet is still pristine, grand, and truly awesome: very few people, thousands of islands, glaciers, volcanos, icebergs, and lots of wildlife and now, two days later I\u2019m here in culture shock, feeling totally disillusioned.<br \/>\nNow, I have read your excellent editorial. Thank you so much for your positive, heartening, \u201cmeditation\u201d on hope and goodness. It brought tears to my eyes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Geri Adam<br \/>\nAurora<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Re: Brock\u2019s Banter, December 22) I\u2019m sitting over my second cup of coffee, feeling a little disillusioned about Christmas and people. We\u2026well, I\u2026tend to think these are the worst times of all because we have such instant communication through social media and we seem to crave bad news . And, there\u2019s no want of that. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}