{"id":295,"date":"2008-12-31T22:16:20","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T04:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/?p=295"},"modified":"2008-12-31T22:16:20","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T04:16:20","slug":"happy-new-year-and-good-news-in-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year! and Good News in 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: Arial;\">Seems like everywhere we turn lately there is bad news\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6financial failures, job losses, people at war. So my New Year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s resolution is to include a positive message here each week. My plan is to record the message and post the audio link. My challenge is to learn how to do this ASAP. \ud83d\ude09 Check back weekly for a new audio message intended to give you a warm, fuzzy feeling and\/or make you laugh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: Arial;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: Arial;\">Also coming in 2009:\u00c2\u00a0a <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">virtual book tour<\/strong> for <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">8 State Hurricane Kate: The Journey and Legacy of a Katrina Cattle Dog<\/em><\/strong>, including an <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">audio excerpt<\/strong> of my interview with Theresa Bernard of the Minnesota Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Press, a video of the Australian Cattle Dog segment of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">The Dog Show<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with Donna Chicone, and perhaps my discussion with a local book club. Stay tuned, and look toward the light! <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;\">Happy New Year!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like everywhere we turn lately there is bad news\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6financial failures, job losses, people at war. So my New Year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s resolution is to include a positive message here each week. My plan is to record the message and post the audio link. My challenge is to learn how to do this ASAP. \ud83d\ude09 Check back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}