{"id":60203,"date":"2026-08-25T23:59:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T23:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=60203"},"modified":"2026-08-25T23:59:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T23:59:56","slug":"social-media-has-its-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=60203","title":{"rendered":"Social media has its benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\r\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Social media has its place in modern life &#8230; such as helping long-ago friends and acquaintances get to know each other better than they did back in the day.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am experiencing that positive social media element right now, as I am getting to know a gentleman with whom I worked back in the 1980s when we first moved to Texas. I took a job as an editorial writer for the Beaumont Enterprise, stayed there for a bit less than 11 years before moving up yonder to take a similar job with the Amarillo Globe-News.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Social media have put me in touch with a fellow I knew in Beaumont. We didn&#8217;t know each other well at the time, but I surely knew of him and he knew of me. We parted company many years ago. I believe he went to Houston before I departed for the High Plains of the Panhandle.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We hooked up recently on Facebook and for the past few days I have had the pleasure of filling him in where my life has taken me. I have informed him of the tragedy I experienced in 2023 with the passing of my bride, Kathy Anne, to glioblastoma. I have been able to tell him I am recovering nicely from the grief and have rebuilt much of my life here in North Texas, where we moved eight years ago.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been duped along the way by individuals who weren&#8217;t who they said they were. This reacquaintance, though, is the real thing. It has demonstrated the immense power for good that social media can bring.<\/p>\r\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media has its place in modern life &#8230; such as helping long-ago friends and acquaintances get to know each other better than they did back in the day. I am experiencing that positive social media element right now, as I am getting to know a gentleman with whom I worked back in the 1980s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=60203\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Social media has its benefits<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[1676,4300],"class_list":["post-60203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-media-news","tag-facebook","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60205,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60203\/revisions\/60205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}