{"id":126,"date":"2002-09-09T20:25:30","date_gmt":"2002-09-10T00:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/casting_about"},"modified":"2002-09-09T20:25:30","modified_gmt":"2002-09-10T00:25:30","slug":"casting_about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2002\/09\/casting_about.html","title":{"rendered":"Casting About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After I started this journal back in <a href=\"\/Journal\/2001\/Oct\/\" title=\"October archives\">October<\/a>, I spent relatively little time talking about the September 11 atrocities &#8212; certainly not since the new year.  As the months went on, this journal has evolved away from the overtly political.  I&#8217;ve been focusing on trivia, humor, and keeping my friends and family entertained.  I&#8217;ve decided that there are enough blowhards out there spewing their uninformed views on geopolitical issues without little ol&#8217; me getting involved.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll just say the following.  I&#8217;m worried: worried about the &#8220;other shoe dropping&#8221;. I&#8217;m disappointed: disappointed with the current administration&#8217;s bumbling, from its failure to commit to Afghan security and stability, to its inability to even <em>try<\/em> to maintain the goodwill and cooperation of our allies.  I&#8217;m unnerved: unnerved to read about rampant anti-Semitic violence in France; disturbed to read the rhetoric about &#8220;Zionist media control&#8221; creeping in not just from the extreme right, but from the left as well. <\/p>\n<p>All I can do is pray that things get better.  It&#8217;s a New Year, the Book is still open, and maybe things will improve.  Shana Tovah, all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a New Year, the Book is still open, and maybe things will improve.  Shana Tovah, all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}