{"id":1020,"date":"2022-04-30T22:48:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T03:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2022-08-13T22:13:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T03:13:50","slug":"why-are-you-here-part-uno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/2022\/04\/30\/why-are-you-here-part-uno\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are You Here?, Part Uno"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Grump is a participant of social media groups for social interaction and entertainment.\u00a0 They can range from serious and political to irreverently humorous to specific topics such as tv shows, etc., and there’s always some schmuck wanting to ruin everyone else’s fun.\u00a0 You have to ask, “Why are you here?”<\/p>\n

For example:\u00a0 The Grump belongs to a Andy Griffith Show Facebook fan page.\u00a0 People discuss the show, ask questions, and generally interact, all light-hearted and fun… well, mostly.\u00a0 Some of the questions are simply “what if” type scenarios.\u00a0 One “what if” scenario might go like this…<\/p>\n

George will ask: “Why didn’t Andy fire Barney for always being incompetent?”<\/p>\n

Time-out:\u00a0 Ok, we all know it wouldn’t have been funny if Andy had fired Barney and everything were totally serious.\u00a0 We all know it is a farcical situation comedy that relies on the absurd to succeed and entertain viewers.\u00a0 To continue, time-in…<\/p>\n

In pops John:\u00a0 “Because that’s not the way the show was written.”<\/p>\n

\ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n

Really, John?\u00a0 That’s your contribution, Caption Obvious?\u00a0 Pretty sure everyone knows this.\u00a0 You are not helping or even legitimately contributing to the spirit of the conversation in any meaningful way.<\/p>\n

John, dude, why are you even here?\u00a0 Why did you join a discussion group if you want to discourage discussion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Grump is a participant of social media groups for social interaction and entertainment.\u00a0 They can range from serious and political to irreverently humorous to specific topics such as tv shows, etc., and there’s always some schmuck wanting to ruin everyone else’s fun.\u00a0 You have to ask, “Why are you here?” For example:\u00a0 The Grump […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annoyances","category-observations","category-whats-on-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}