{"id":14821,"date":"2012-01-10T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14821"},"modified":"2012-01-09T11:38:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T19:38:42","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14821","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello readers of <em>Alas<\/em>! <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a reader of Alas for several years (and an occasional commenter), and Barry recently invited me to be a guest blogger here as well. I also regularly write at my own blog <a href=\"http:\/\/fanniesroom.blogspot.com\/\">Fannie&#8217;s Room<\/a>, and currently am also a guest blogger (presenting a lesbian, feminist, pro-SSM perspective) at the (anti-SSM-leaning) Family Scholars Blog.<\/p>\n<p>I want to thank Barry for the invitation. One thing I&#8217;ve always appreciated about Alas, and that influenced my decision to guest blog here, is that the level of discourse among the bloggers and commenters is relatively civil and engaged.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for having me here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello readers of Alas! I&#8217;ve been a reader of Alas for several years (and an occasional commenter), and Barry recently invited me to be a guest blogger here as well. I also regularly write at my own blog Fannie&#8217;s Room, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14821\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14822,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14821\/revisions\/14822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}