{"id":226560,"date":"2026-05-17T13:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=226560"},"modified":"2026-05-17T13:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:55:12","slug":"taking-a-break-from-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=226560","title":{"rendered":"Taking a break from print"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In light of the announcement last Tuesday of yet another state of emergency (SoE) I feel compelled to restate a main theme of these columns. We have barely advanced positively in politics or in governance, and little ever changes, even after a general election at which we vote out an unsatisfactory, non-performing incumbent government. Our<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/trinidadexpress.com\/opinion\/columnists\/taking-a-break-from-print\/article_79cb200a-25e2-4229-b517-28b593842f8d.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of the announcement last Tuesday of yet another state of emergency (SoE) I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226560-taking-a-break-from-print.jpg",732,384,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226560-taking-a-break-from-print-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226560-taking-a-break-from-print-300x157.jpg",300,157,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226560-taking-a-break-from-print.jpg",640,336,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226560-taking-a-break-from-print.jpg",640,336,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226560-taking-a-break-from-print.jpg",732,384,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226560-taking-a-break-from-print.jpg",732,384,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226560-taking-a-break-from-print.jpg",732,384,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226560-taking-a-break-from-print.jpg",732,384,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226560-taking-a-break-from-print-590x384.jpg",590,384,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/226561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}