{"id":589,"date":"2009-06-23T21:21:45","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T01:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=589"},"modified":"2009-06-23T21:21:45","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T01:21:45","slug":"leaving-the-porchlight-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=589","title":{"rendered":"Leaving the porchlight on&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 15th was the last full update of Kuma2.net. The decision to stop working on Kuma was hard. It&#8217;s been a great 10 year run&#8211;from an idea sketched in traffic to a monthly (and then quarterly) ezine&#8211;but we feel it&#8217;s time to explore other projects\/ideas.<\/p>\n<p>You should know what&#8217;s going to happen to the website&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We <strong>are not <\/strong>taking Kuma2.net down &#8211; we just will not be adding more stories\/poetry\/etc to it. All the pieces that you love in the archive will still be here. All of the information in the other sections&#8211;relationships, spirituality, domestic violence&#8211;that&#8217;s not going anywhere.<\/li>\n<li>We will, however, occasionally post new content here in the blog. (Adding media reviews, lgbt events, announcements, calls for submissions, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Any post that appears here on the blog, will also be posted to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Kuma2net\/42873491428\" target=\"_blank\">Kuma2.net facebook page<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In place of the July 15th update, we are compiling a list of sites and podcasts that we suggest Kuma readers should visit. If you have or know of a good website, podcast, Youtube channel, whatever that you&#8217;d like to suggest, please leave a note in our comments section.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for a wonderful decade of writing and sharing your words with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 15th was the last full update of Kuma2.net. 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