{"id":932,"date":"2018-03-11T23:06:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T23:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/?p=932"},"modified":"2018-03-11T23:39:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T23:39:19","slug":"march-2018-goodnews-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2018\/03\/11\/march-2018-goodnews-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"march 2018 \u2013 goodnews editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you all so much for the extensive feedback via email and Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gaiamedia\/\">www.facebook.com\/gaiamedia\/<\/a>) on our newly designed\u00a0<em>goodnews<\/em>. Unfortunately, social media are not what they used to be. Users are manipulated and posts pre-selected. Politics, first encouraged as opinion leading, are then abandoned as propaganda. Classical media and organisations like ours are applauded and then dropped like they\u2019re hot, only to be spread further at a cost (\u201cfor $3 you can reach up to 1,300 users\u201d). And so the carousel of fake friendship changes direction again and again. What to do? To me it is clear that the air of the social media is rapidly thinning, no matter how hard I try to make them work for the\u00a0<em>gaiamedia goodnews<\/em>. And that is why I am all the happier about the new design and the regularly updated content of our website\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.gaiamedia.org.<\/a>\u00a0And about spring \u2013 waiting backstage for its turn!<br \/>\nWarmly,<br \/>\n<em>Susanne G. Seiler<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"null\">Prayer<\/h3>\n<p>Give thou thine heart to the wild magic,<br \/>\nto the Lord and the Lady of Nature \u2013<br \/>\nbeyond any consideration of this world.<br \/>\nDo not covet large or small.<br \/>\nDo not despise weakling or poor.<br \/>\nSemblance of evil allow not near thee.<br \/>\nNever give nor earn thou shame.<br \/>\nThe Ancient Harmonies are given thee.<br \/>\nUnderstand them early and prove that<br \/>\nyou may be one with the power of the elements.<br \/>\nPut behind thee dishonour and lies.<br \/>\nBe loyal to the Lord of the Wild Wood.<br \/>\nBe true to the Lady of the Stars.<br \/>\nBe true to thine own self besides and<br \/>\nTrue to the magic of Nature above all else.<br \/>\nDo not thou curse anyone<br \/>\nlest thou threefold cursed shouldst be.<br \/>\nAnd shouldst thou travel ocean and earth<br \/>\nfollow the very step of the ancient trackways.<\/p>\n<p><em>Celtic Wisdom<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you all so much for the extensive feedback via email and Facebook (www.facebook.com\/gaiamedia\/) on our newly designed\u00a0goodnews. Unfortunately, social media are not what they used to be. Users are manipulated and posts pre-selected. Politics, first encouraged as opinion leading, are then abandoned as propaganda. Classical media and organisations like ours are applauded and then<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2018\/03\/11\/march-2018-goodnews-editorial\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}