{"id":1092,"date":"2005-09-06T23:31:17","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T03:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/06\/welcome-back\/"},"modified":"2005-09-06T23:31:17","modified_gmt":"2005-09-07T03:31:17","slug":"welcome-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/06\/welcome-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I actually added so many items over the holiday weekend that I feel like taking <I>today<\/I> off&#8230;but I wanted to make sure any of you readers who might be romance fans heard about <A href=\"http:\/\/www.romancedesigns.com\/reliefcontest.cfm\">the charity raffle at <I>Romantic Designs<\/I><\/A>. If you donate $2 or more to the American Red Cross through their Amazon paybox, you could win signed copies of all sorts of romance and chick-lit fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it&#8217;s worth noting that after one of this weekend&#8217;s posts openly questioned the appointment of James Lee Witt to head Louisiana&#8217;s recovery efforts, given that his consultancy was named as a contributor to last year&#8217;s &#8220;Catastrophic Plan for Southeast Louisiana&#8221; by the company hired by FEMA to create it, Witt&#8217;s office <A href=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/archives\/001712.html\">set me straight<\/A>, along with several other bloggers cc&#8217;ed on the letter. Turns out the company only used Witt&#8217;s name to get the job&#8230;so now he gets to go in and clean up after their colossal screwup. <\/p>\n<p>Finally, a break from all that: <I>Professor Barnhardt&#8217;s Journal<\/I> asked a number of writers to identify their <A href=\"http:\/\/sassone.tripod.com\/pbjissue56.html\">favorite word<\/A>. This may be the only time you ever see me sharing media space with the likes of Marty Beckermann, Ned Vizzini, Jonathan Lethem <I>and<\/I> Keith Olbermann.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I actually added so many items over the holiday weekend that I feel like taking today off&#8230;but I wanted to make sure any of you readers who might be romance fans heard about the charity raffle at Romantic Designs. If you donate $2 or more to the American Red Cross through their Amazon paybox, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}