{"id":168,"date":"2007-11-06T09:58:55","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T09:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/?p=168"},"modified":"2007-11-06T09:58:55","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T09:58:55","slug":"the-dilemma-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"The dilemma of the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I read to much, maybe I just get to much information. I just feel overwhelmed by what is happening out here in the world. Through the internet, newspaper and CNN\/BBC I have access to the worlds disasters, war, genocide and latest starlet gossip. I mostly get the suffering and the stupidity of the human race. Sometimes I get lucky and there is a story that inspires hope, but mostly I get information about the world going down. <br \/>There are big floods in Mexico and in Vietnam. Volcanoes are stirring in Indonesia, a power grasp in Pakistan and the tragedy of 103 children in Chad who apparently were being abducted by an organization called Zoe&#8217;s ark, while the news of last week is old news and we forget all that was then because we move on and focus somewhere else. <br \/>All the issues that are kept in front of our mind seem to be the Afghanistan and Iraq war, Global warming. Swiss news I neglected all together. Living in Thailand I focus more on the local and regional happenings. I do realize I have a momentous overkill. I know I can decide and select. But I&#8217;m just to curious a person to not to get informed. I am also aware that I cannot change anything.<br \/>The good thing is that I leave for the mountains for a view days again. Time to calm down and to reflect. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I read to much, maybe I just get to much information. I just feel overwhelmed by what is happening out here in the world. Through the internet, newspaper and CNN\/BBC I have access to the worlds disasters, war, genocide and latest starlet gossip. I mostly get the suffering and the stupidity of the human&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-every-day-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}