{"id":5755,"date":"2024-05-19T02:56:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T08:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.balkingpoints.com\/balk\/?page_id=5755"},"modified":"2026-01-05T00:58:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:58:32","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/about","title":{"rendered":"About ~ Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\np{font-size:22px; color: black;}<br \/>\n<\/style>\n<p class=\"ex1\">\n<b><em>What is this site?<\/em><\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"ex1\">\nI built Balkingpoints.com in 2009 as a World Citizen Forum site. If you scroll down the Guestbook remarks you&#8217;ll see it&#8217;s received a fair amount of response, from many parts of the world. For about 3 years a &#8220;Balkers&#8221; section was up with posts from various blog writers, and at times good comments reaction on them.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"ex1\">\nI still believe that in future decades the world forum concept will take hold as a prominent genre on the WWW. As a medium the Internet amounts to a quantum socio-political shift, not seen since the advent of the printing press. It facilitates billions of people to connect across distances and borders without gatekeepers like corporate media &#038; government. Ramifications thereof: nearly unlimited, mostly yet unfolded, but on balance sharply positive. An inexorable catalyst for transformation from a less-just to more-just world, exactly as the printing press was.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"ex1\">\nThe initial blueprint was for site promos I was conducting in those years, to give way to a more &#8220;viral&#8221; propulsion that might take the site massive. My own efforts either haven&#8217;t been enough to touch that off, or it&#8217;s possibly a thing ahead of it&#8217;s time. Something like that&#8230;   \ud83d\ude04\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"ex1\">\nI will entertain serious offers for the domain. Reach me at ;\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"ex1\">\n<em>Roy (at) balkingpoints.com<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"ex1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/archives\/92\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Where did you see<\/a> the rotating World At Night from?<\/p>\n<p><code><\/code><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<iframe title='World population' src='https:\/\/www.theworldcounts.com\/embed\/challenges\/8?background_color=white&#038;color=black&#038;font_family=%22Helvetica+Neue%22%2C+Arial%2C+sans-serif&#038;font_size=14' style='border: none' height='100' width='300'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Global-soccer-ball2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<code><\/code><\/p>\n<p>        <b>Balkingpoints.com &#8211; Global Maxims <\/b><\/p>\n<p>        <em>Cultures of the world are more different than alike, but people of the world are more alike than different.<\/em><br \/>\n<center><b>_____<\/b><\/center><\/p>\n<p>        <em>In past generations, leaders of nations waged war over competing economic interests.<br \/>\n        In future generations, citizens of nations may make peace over common economic interests.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><code><\/code><br \/>\n<center>Published 2009-2026 \/ all rights reserved<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is this site? I built Balkingpoints.com in 2009 as a World Citizen Forum site. If you scroll down the Guestbook remarks you&#8217;ll see it&#8217;s received a fair amount of response, from many parts of the world. For about 3 years a &#8220;Balkers&#8221; section was up with posts from various blog writers, and at times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":574,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5755"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6327,"href":"https:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5755\/revisions\/6327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}