{"id":14925,"date":"2008-11-11T11:44:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T19:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/keep-columns-coming\/"},"modified":"2008-11-11T11:44:05","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T19:44:05","slug":"keep-columns-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/keep-columns-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep columns coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes! I like the new columnist Walter Backstrom.<\/p>\n<p>At age 66 I\u2019m beginning to understand courageous individuals who not only take risks, but comprehend the vast amount of hatred that threatens good men and women to \u201cshut up\u201d out of fear.<\/p>\n<p>I think this learning process causes people of good heart to choose friends carefully and not to be so gullible to believe \u201ceveryone is good, God-fearing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To be popular, accepted by a majority, may indicate a lack of discernment to challenge, motivate. It\u2019s no crime to be unpopular, vilified, hated or have one\u2019s character demeaned. To be truly free is to walk with God and his saints. More from Mr. Backstrom!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Karen Witttgens<\/p>\n<p>Kent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes! I like the new columnist Walter Backstrom. At age 66 I\u2019m beginning to understand courageous individuals who not only take risks, but comprehend the vast amount of hatred that threatens good men and women to \u201cshut up\u201d out of fear. I think this learning process causes people of good heart to choose friends carefully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-14925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14925"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}