{"id":696,"date":"2017-04-20T17:16:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T17:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/?page_id=696"},"modified":"2019-08-02T04:57:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T04:57:20","slug":"another-letter-to-the-editors-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/another-letter-to-the-editors-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Letter to the Editors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe I write primarily to get it, whatever it might<\/p>\n<p>be at the moment, out of my system.<\/p>\n<p>That there are people out there that read what I write,<\/p>\n<p>frankly, is rewarding. And some may agree with what<\/p>\n<p>I say and some may not but again, frankly,\u00a0 it matters<\/p>\n<p>naught. What matters to me is what I believe.<\/p>\n<p>Make of that what you will.<\/p>\n<p>In a more serious vein, WordPress\u00a0 passes along<\/p>\n<p>comments from others which I do not respond to<\/p>\n<p>for reasons previously stated in earlier &#8220;letters to<\/p>\n<p>the editors&#8221;, however I can&#8217;t help but respond<\/p>\n<p>to the following comment on &#8220;Shiteaters&#8221;, sent<\/p>\n<p>me recently by a woman, perhaps, judging by<\/p>\n<p>the e-mail address.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s difficult to find experienced people in this<\/p>\n<p>particular topic, but you seem like you know<\/p>\n<p>what you&#8217;re talking about! Thanks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At first blush I took it for praise, but then<\/p>\n<p>again she might be implying that I myself<\/p>\n<p>am a shiteater! Ha-ha!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know, but one thing I do know<\/p>\n<p>and that is we&#8217;re all assholes. Ha-ha!<\/p>\n<p>Islander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe I write primarily to get it, whatever it might be at the moment, out of my system. That there are people out there that read what I write, frankly, is rewarding. And some may agree with what I say and some may not but again, frankly,\u00a0 it matters naught. What matters to me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/another-letter-to-the-editors-3\/\" 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-696","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/696","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=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1587,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/696\/revisions\/1587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}