{"id":23298,"date":"2016-07-31T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23298"},"modified":"2016-07-31T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T19:00:11","slug":"lona-goudswaard-has-a-big-mouth-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/31\/lona-goudswaard-has-a-big-mouth-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Lona Goudswaard Has a BIG Mouth Again! ;-)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"81-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=\"81-Lona\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/81-Lona.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Lona is still a denizen of <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.care2.com\/c2c\/people\/profile.html?pid=211280220\" target=\"_blank\">Care2<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">, a daily participant here, and a multinational treasure, who spends her time in the Netherlands and Queensland, Australia,&#160; This is her fourth award, the first on 8\/6\/2015, shortly after she started commenting here, the second on 3\/11, and her third on 4\/4.&#160; Her knowledge of US Politics remains far greater than that of the average American voter. She enjoys sending me naps, when I am tired. She has also become an Author here, at Politics Plus, writing her &quot;A View from Afar&quot; series, in which she puts a European twist on current events, until she flips herself upside down this week, and switches her viewpoint to Oztralia,<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Please join me in inundating her with hugs and kudos. I look forward to her fifth.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lona is still a denizen of Care2, a daily participant here, and a multinational treasure, who spends her time in the Netherlands and Queensland, Australia,&#160; This is her fourth award, the first on 8\/6\/2015, shortly after she started commenting here, the second on 3\/11, and her third on 4\/4.&#160; Her knowledge of US Politics remains <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/31\/lona-goudswaard-has-a-big-mouth-again\/' 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":[31,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-news","category-personal","category-31-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23298","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=23298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}