{"id":816,"date":"2016-11-09T21:43:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T03:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/?p=816"},"modified":"2016-11-09T21:43:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T03:43:31","slug":"today-is-a-beginning-not-an-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Today is a beginning, not an ending&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today I was in a place where I was thinking of giving up on doing the Liberal Dan Radio podcast. Not just for today, but for good. That is basically how hopeless I felt about things.<\/p>\n<p>That is until a friend of mine told me this: &#8220;You have to. Today is a beginning, not an ending&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That gave me the strength to get on the air. So I want to thank that friend for that. And during the podcast I realized an important thing. While I am Jewish and Trumps pandering to antisemit<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">es still terrifies me, there are many other people out there&#8230; friends of mine who have shared their fears today. People who may feel less than safe about speaking up during a Trump Administration about their fears and needs. Those people are going to need advocates. I can use my show to be one of those advocates. I can use my show to stand up and fight for others who do not feel comfortable standing up and being visible right now. So that is what I will do.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today I was in a place where I was thinking of giving up on doing the Liberal Dan Radio podcast. Not just for today, but for good. That is basically how hopeless I felt about things. That is until a friend of mine told me this: &#8220;You have to. Today is a beginning, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Ts27-da","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817,"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}