Reflections<\/p>\n
Today\u00a0\u00a0will be a week from the Fourth of July \u2013 our country\u2019s always spectacular celebration of the birth of our nation.\u00a0 I was going to write about the baseball game and the fireworks over the East River \u00a0and the wonderful time I had with my family, but I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
It was a word President Obama used when addressing us…\u00a0reflection<\/em>; a reflection on the horrific events of the past week.\u00a0\u00a0 A reflection that stopped me from posting the happiness of that weekend.\u00a0 The scenes from Texas, Louisiana and Minnesota \u00a0were overwhelming.<\/p>\n I was born in upstate New York \u2013 my family moved several times due to\u00a0 our father\u2019s work and his final transfer \u00a0was \u00a0to Charlotte, North Carolina. \u00a0Reflecting \u00a0\u2013 I remember how shocked we were to see \u00a0the \u00a0signs saying \u201cwhites only\u201d and \u201ccolored\u201d when we moved there. \u00a0 \u00a0And now, reflecting on this past week \u2013 certain atrocities may have changed \u2013 but our nation has a very, very long way to go before intolerance is no longer part of our lives and violence ends.<\/p>\n My family is interracial and I have family and friends in\u00a0\u00a0law enforcement and every day I am concerned for their safety.<\/p>\n With sadness, but with hope,<\/p>\n Kay<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reflections Today\u00a0\u00a0will be a week from the Fourth of July \u2013 our country\u2019s always spectacular celebration of the birth of our nation.\u00a0 I was going to write about the baseball game and the fireworks over the East River \u00a0and the wonderful time I had with my family, but I didn\u2019t. It was a word President … Continue reading “REFLECTIONS”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7svLB-8P","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaysnycways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}