{"id":2557,"date":"2018-01-02T13:14:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T18:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tedkrever.com\/blog\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2018-01-02T13:14:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T18:14:34","slug":"renewal-another-river-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tedkrever.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/02\/renewal-another-river-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewal &#8211; Is That Another River in Egypt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been silent for a while and, as anyone who knows me will tell you, silence isn&#8217;t my natural state.<\/p>\n<p>I think, after the election, I just didn&#8217;t know what to say&#8211;and so much of what followed was so angry and unthinking, when it wasn&#8217;t just preaching to the (various) choirs, that I&#8217;ve had a hard time imagining what I have to offer.<\/p>\n<p>But I think I&#8217;m getting there now.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2558\" style=\"width: 177px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2558\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2558\" src=\"http:\/\/tedkrever.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/167px-Quo_Vadis_poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"240\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2558\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fake News (about Nero)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have a new book that&#8217;s close to finished (fingers crossed). It arises from the following point of view:<\/p>\n<p>This is the most ridiculous fucking crazy-ass circus that&#8217;s existed since Nero tuned his fiddle and we&#8217;ve got a ringside seat. It isn&#8217;t pretty, to say the least, but while everything is coming apart at the seams, we should at least try to notice just how funny and sad and just plain nuts it is.<\/p>\n<p>And suddenly, looking at things that way, it feels like there&#8217;s quite a lot left to say.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been silent for a while and, as anyone who knows me will tell you, silence isn&#8217;t my natural state. I think, after the election, I just didn&#8217;t know what to say&#8211;and so much of what followed was so angry <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tedkrever.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/02\/renewal-another-river-egypt\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7,5,4],"tags":[11,254,296,294,297,295,94,289],"class_list":["post-2557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-books","category-everything-else","category-the-world","category-writing","tag-absurdity","tag-e-books","tag-humor","tag-nero","tag-satire","tag-the-middle-east","tag-thrillers","tag-trump"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedkrever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedkrever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedkrever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedkrever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedkrever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tedkrever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2559,"href":"https:\/\/tedkrever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions\/2559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedkrever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedkrever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedkrever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}