{"id":1662,"date":"2010-08-05T18:08:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T01:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2010-08-05T18:08:15","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T01:08:15","slug":"out-of-the-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=1662","title":{"rendered":"Out of the loop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who has spent five minutes reading this blog knows I&#8217;m a military wife with a spouse currently serving in Afghanistan. This isn&#8217;t his first tour.<\/p>\n<p>When he was in KAF last year I was glued to news sites and tv channels. I wanted to know exactly what was going on over there at all times. I couldn&#8217;t get enough information and the media outlets were happy to oblige.<\/p>\n<p>This tour is different. I&#8217;m not stalking news sites. And the online media isn&#8217;t providing as much information (or at least not as headline news) anymore. Perhaps that&#8217;s a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of panic and worry at every little thing I read or hear &#8211; bad news blaring across the headlines &#8211; I&#8217;m often learning about events after the fact through check-in calls with hubs. This lower stress level is really making a difference. Here&#8217;s hoping it continues for the next 9 1\/2 months&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who has spent five minutes reading this blog knows I&#8217;m a military wife with a spouse currently serving in Afghanistan. This isn&#8217;t his first tour. When he was in KAF last year I was glued to news sites and tv channels. I wanted to know exactly what was going on over there at all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[50,95,203,49,204,202],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soldier-on","tag-canadian-forces","tag-kaf","tag-media","tag-military","tag-news","tag-spouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}