{"id":71,"date":"2008-08-10T10:31:41","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T10:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/switchingtime.wordpress.com\/?p=64"},"modified":"2008-08-10T10:31:41","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T10:31:41","slug":"karen-answers-candace-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Karen Answers Candace D."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/switchingtime.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/14\/qa-with-karen-question-1\/#comment-48\">Comment by Candace D. on August 7, 2008 11:09 pm<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nDear Karen,<\/p>\n<p>How do you deal with stories in the news that talk about abused children, domestic violence and general violence?<\/p>\n<p>Candace D.<br \/>\nTexas<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dear Candace,<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to listen to the news at times. It saddens me to hear of a child being abused, a woman being raped or beaten, and violence by angry individuals.  I just wish it never would happen.  I believe the media shares these stories to bring awareness to the public, so such activities aren\u2019t be kept secret. There are certain times, especially when I feel weak, that I need to turn off the news.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s heartbreaking for me to hear these stories and not be able to help.  One reason I allowed my story to be told was in hope that women and children who are targets of violence can get help before becoming chronic victims.  I believe there are early signs that many women don&#8217;t pay attention to that signal they and their children in danger.<\/p>\n<p>Karen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment by Candace D. on August 7, 2008 11:09 pm Dear Karen, How do you deal with stories in the news that talk about abused children, domestic violence and general violence? Candace D. Texas Dear Candace, It&#8217;s hard to listen to the news at times. It saddens me to hear of a child being abused, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-karens-answers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}