{"id":15790,"date":"2015-08-08T12:14:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T19:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15790"},"modified":"2015-08-08T12:14:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T19:14:48","slug":"lona-goudswaard-has-a-big-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/08\/lona-goudswaard-has-a-big-mouth\/","title":{"rendered":"Lona Goudswaard Has a BIG Mouth!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"67-Lona\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"67-Lona\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/67-Lona.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Although Lona has been visiting from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.care2.com\/c2c\/people\/profile.html?pid=211280220\" target=\"_blank\">Care2<\/a> for well over a year, she started commenting here only recently, so this is her very first Big Mouth Award.&#160; She brings us a unique perspective, as she divides her home between The Netherlands and Queensland, Australia.&#160; Nevertheless, she displays a knowledge of American politics that should put most Americans to shame and a level of wisdom that is a rare find anywhere.&#160; She enjoys sending me naps, when I am tired, and those naps are so high in quality that she frequently causes me to oversleep. \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Please join me in piling on the hugs and kudos.&#160; Also, please send warm thoughts her way, as she just arrived in Australia, and climate change is freezing her tail with unseasonably cold weather.&#160; I have no doubt that more awards are coming her way, and am thankful for her participation here.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Lona has been visiting from Care2 for well over a year, she started commenting here only recently, so this is her very first Big Mouth Award.&#160; She brings us a unique perspective, as she divides her home between The Netherlands and Queensland, Australia.&#160; Nevertheless, she displays a knowledge of American politics that should put <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/08\/lona-goudswaard-has-a-big-mouth\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-news","category-politics","category-31-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}