{"id":23274,"date":"2008-11-02T15:28:42","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T23:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/new-columnists-outlook-appreciated\/"},"modified":"2008-11-02T15:28:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T23:28:42","slug":"new-columnists-outlook-appreciated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/new-columnists-outlook-appreciated\/","title":{"rendered":"New columnist\u2019s outlook appreciated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To Reporter columnist Walter Backstrom:<\/p>\n<p>I recently read your article in the Kent Reporter and I\u2019d just like to say thank you for your courage and your thoughtful words.<\/p>\n<p>It is always difficult to choose between politicians especially with all the side issues of race and war. But being a religious conservative, I know how important it is to stick to your faith and make decisions on<\/p>\n<p>issues that are of utmost importance. I can only imagine how difficult it would be to do so in an African<\/p>\n<p>American community where the Democratic candidate is African American as well.<\/p>\n<p>I admire your courage.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Niesulowski<\/p>\n<p>Kent<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Reporter columnist Walter Backstrom:<br \/>\nI recently read your article in the Kent Reporter and I\u2019d just like to say thank you for your courage and your thoughtful words.<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23274"}],"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=23274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23274"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}