{"id":26,"date":"2025-12-17T05:23:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/865276\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2026-01-05T16:40:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:40:40","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/865276\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/865276\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/author.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2373\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Linda B. Gefen<\/strong> is a wife, mother, grandmother, entrepreneur, and writer. She graduated with a bachelor\u2019s degree in education from Hofstra University. Thirty-one years of owning a retail business brought out her creative side, and social interactions have given her a heightened sense of the community\u2019s political pulse. Her first Letter to the Editor was published in USA Today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Linda most recently said, &#8220;I was lucky to be born at the tail end of WW II, not to have seen the atrocities in real time&#8230;but I hope to outlive this war we are living in&#8230;a war of actions and words filled with hate, lies&#8230; and, injustice for all!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our US Pledge of Allegiance has been tampered with&#8230; the current version below&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It is up to us to bring those words back to life once again!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:226px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda B. Gefen is a wife, mother, grandmother, entrepreneur, and writer. She graduated with a bachelor\u2019s degree in education from Hofstra University. Thirty-one years of owning a retail business brought out her creative side, and social interactions have given her a heightened sense of the community\u2019s political pulse. Her first Letter to the Editor was &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/865276\/about-the-author\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About the Author&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2395,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","no-comments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/865276\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/865276\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/865276\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/865276\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/865276\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/865276\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/865276\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/865276\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/865276\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}