{"id":6716,"date":"2024-03-19T05:12:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T12:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/notes-3\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T05:12:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T12:12:48","slug":"notes-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/notes-3\/","title":{"rendered":"notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know she&#8217;s a Big Name Author. I&#8217;ve read a lot of her books and have fanned her writings when I was heavy into the genre.<\/p>\n<p>As a child, I was in the mall when the bookstore had her as a guest. It didn&#8217;t look like a big signing event&#8230; but I didn&#8217;t go in.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, I recognize that she&#8217;s a legend of the field.<\/p>\n<p>But for the sake of the public good, why are you listening to her opinion on Real Life events? Like, real professional journalists are giving her article space!<\/p>\n<p>The articles <em>should<\/em> exist. They simply shouldn&#8217;t be appearing in Main Line NEWS sources.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever happened to &quot;Letters to the Editor&quot;? Weren&#8217;t people able to write back about previous letters?<\/p>\n<p>I think I remember a &quot;feelgood&quot; story about two elderly gentlemen and part of their frenemy relationship is writing a Letter to the Editor and the other responding to it. They basically sent letters back and forth, affirming that even when they don&#8217;t see each other they can know they&#8217;re both still alive and kicking. Both are widowers.<\/p>\n<p>As a child, my class was asked to write letters to the editor, and my letter was chosen.<\/p>\n<p>It was a big deal to me. But at the same time it wasn&#8217;t an article that could be shown off at family events. Because I was an aggressively worded child.<\/p>\n<p>I saw that newspaper and it made me feel good. And I&#8217;m glad there wasn&#8217;t also publicly available video.<\/p>\n<p>I was an embarrassing child. Endearing at moments, but sometimes so bluntly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad I was raised in a time when parents weren&#8217;t able to completely share their child&#8217;s life on the Internet. And by the time the technology appeared, my parents and grandparents were too old to share stuff without asking for my help to do it. So there&#8217;d be a chance to step in and change the focus.<\/p>\n<p>I <em>hate<\/em> that much sense of loss-of-control. I can&#8217;t imagine my entire childhood being recorded and broadcast live to strangers. At the time, I likely would have thought it was great. Or my need to please and impress the adults in my life would have had me soft-selling myself on the idea that &quot;It&#8217;s great!&quot; while not realizing I was being taken advantage of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know she&#8217;s a Big Name Author. I&#8217;ve read a lot of her books and have fanned her writings when I was heavy into the genre. As a child, I was in the mall when the bookstore had her as a guest. It didn&#8217;t look like a big signing event&#8230; but I didn&#8217;t go in.&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/notes-3\/\" title=\"notes\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">notes<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-6716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-1Kk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3602,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/letters-trust-myself-in-you\/","url_meta":{"origin":6716,"position":0},"title":"Letters: Trust myself in you.","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"March 2, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I love to write. 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