{"id":3774,"date":"2013-04-20T00:02:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T07:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=3774"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:58:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:58:16","slug":"you-dont-have-to-watch-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/you-dont-have-to-watch-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"You don&#8217;t have to watch the news."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/news.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5264\" title=\"news\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/news-300x164.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a>There is a lot of terrible stuff going on in the world.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0stopped watching the news years ago- and when I do have to see it, I&#8217;m amazed at how the main stories are the\u00a0stories from all of those years ago!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to ignore the news. We have been raised on it and for many people, world knowledge is an important sign of intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>I am fine with not knowing what is going on in certain situations. I don&#8217;t mind appearing uninformed.\u00a0 Not at all. If I have a question, I ask a friend.<\/p>\n<p>My stability is what matters.\u00a0 As a reader suggested during the Japanese tsunami, we don&#8217;t have to read about something, but we can donate to companies who can make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>If the war in the Middle East is too stressful, you can turn off the news. Watching the news will not help the people.\u00a0 You can then give money or volunteer to help the cause.\u00a0 Watching is not always the answer.<\/p>\n<p>If you are stressed by the world right now, it&#8217;s ok to take a break.<\/p>\n<p>Julie<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/news.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5264\" title=\"news\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/news-300x164.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a>There is a lot of terrible stuff going on in the world.<\/p>\n<p>I stopped watching the news years ago- and when I do have to see it, I&#8217;m amazed at how the main stories are the stories from all of those years ago!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to ignore the news. We have been raised on it and for many people, world knowledge is an important sign of intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>I am fine with not knowing what is going on in certain situations. I don&#8217;t mind appearing uninformed. Not at all. If I have a question, I ask a friend.<\/p>\n<p>My stability is what matters. As a reader suggested during the Japanese tsunami, we don&#8217;t have to read about something, but we can donate to companies who can make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>If the war in the Middle East is too stressful, you can turn off the news. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/you-dont-have-to-watch-the-news\/\">[ Read More ]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11394,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions\/11394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}