{"id":546476,"date":"2010-04-28T14:19:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T18:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d48a69e2013480359f51970c"},"modified":"2010-04-28T14:19:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T18:19:05","slug":"for-the-first-time-in-5-years-of-blogging-i-talk-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546476","title":{"rendered":"For The First Time In 5 Years Of Blogging, I Talk Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\n<p>In my entire 5-year career of blogging, I have never once talked about politics, not because I don&#8217;t care but mainly because I find the subject of politics soul sucking and highly charged with negative energy. Many people can handle it, I&#8217;m one soul who cannot, and that&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n<p>But today, I&#8217;m speaking out because now there is spreading talk of boycotting our state as a means to force the government of Arizona to over turn immigration bill that was just signed into law. Honestly, I am scared and motivated at the same time. It&#8217;s time to start hearing more from the citizens, the everyday people of Arizona like me who live here, and not the politicians, the pundits or the media outlets. Today, I&#8217;m going to blog what&#8217;s in my heart.<\/p>\n<p>So here I express on Noshtopia Phoenix, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/phoenix.noshtopia.com\/2010\/04\/from-an-everyday-arizona-citizen-before-you-boycott-our-state.html\">From An Everyday Arizona Citizen: Before You<br \/>\nBoycott Our State<\/a>&#8230;&#8221; Thank you for reading!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/TUtNkCp_4JSs54cp9da2rpvFRqI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/TUtNkCp_4JSs54cp9da2rpvFRqI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/TUtNkCp_4JSs54cp9da2rpvFRqI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/TUtNkCp_4JSs54cp9da2rpvFRqI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Noshtopia?a=AE3PmMMk2RE:kjIRWWJABNs:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Noshtopia?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Noshtopia?a=AE3PmMMk2RE:kjIRWWJABNs:I9og5sOYxJI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Noshtopia?d=I9og5sOYxJI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Noshtopia?a=AE3PmMMk2RE:kjIRWWJABNs:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Noshtopia?i=AE3PmMMk2RE:kjIRWWJABNs:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Noshtopia\/~4\/AE3PmMMk2RE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my entire 5-year career of blogging, I have never once talked about politics, not because I don&#8217;t care but mainly because I find the subject of politics soul sucking and highly charged with negative energy. Many people can handle it, I&#8217;m one soul who cannot, and that&#8217;s okay. But today, I&#8217;m speaking out because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2831,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}