{"id":1338,"date":"2018-09-18T05:04:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T05:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/?page_id=1338"},"modified":"2018-09-18T05:04:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T05:04:38","slug":"another-letter-to-the-editors-8","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/another-letter-to-the-editors-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Letter to the Editors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my tenth letter and in it I wish to clarify a few things.<br \/>\nFirst, it might seem that I am fixatedly commenting on the<br \/>\n&#8220;master of the universe&#8221;[his idea] and indeed that is true.<br \/>\nIn my defense I say, it&#8217;s hard to ignore a runaway train,<br \/>\nparticularly so in the sense that one is an unwilling<br \/>\npassenger on it. How&#8217;s that for an analogy?, ha,ha!<br \/>\nWill someone please pull the emergency cord, ha,ha!<br \/>\nSecondly, and I&#8217;ve said this before, when I started posting I was<br \/>\nadamant in my mind that I would not respond to comments if there<br \/>\nwere any. As it turns out there were and are.<br \/>\nThe spam I ignore and put to trash, this does not stop them<br \/>\nof course, but they do have IP addresses and I&#8217;m toying with<br \/>\nlooking into that fact in search of a possible solution.<br \/>\nIf I come up with something I&#8217;ll let you know.<br \/>\nAs to individual comments, which I do appreciate and they encourage<br \/>\nme no end, I now, somewhat circumspectively, respond in these<br \/>\noccasional letters.<br \/>\nI find some questions asked of me rather repetitive.<br \/>\nQuestions about the intricacies of the Internet I cannot answer<br \/>\nas my knowledge in that respect is quite limited.<br \/>\nOther questions such as how to go online, how much it costs, etc.,<br \/>\nI have answered. One complaint I have received a few times but<br \/>\ncannot do anything about is when people click on the new comments<br \/>\ncheckbox and consequently receive multiple identical responses.<br \/>\nMy advice is don&#8217;t click on it.<br \/>\nEverything I have mentioned above is addressed in former letters<br \/>\nand I suggest one should type Another Letter to the Editors in<br \/>\nthe search box to access them.<br \/>\nOne more thing, I&#8217;ve recently noticed that my former posts are<br \/>\nno longer accessible as they once were, so I plan to publish<br \/>\ntheir titles, in small batches from time to time, going back to<br \/>\nthe advent of this website. The titles can then be typed in the<br \/>\nsearch-box and retrieved, as I believe for the most part they<br \/>\nare not outdated. Sincerely,<br \/>\nIslander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my tenth letter and in it I wish to clarify a few things. First, it might seem that I am fixatedly commenting on the &#8220;master of the universe&#8221;[his idea] and indeed that is true. In my defense I say, it&#8217;s hard to ignore a runaway train, particularly so in the sense that one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/another-letter-to-the-editors-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another Letter to the Editors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1338","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1338\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}