{"id":860,"date":"2021-03-24T18:27:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T23:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/?p=860"},"modified":"2021-03-24T18:28:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T23:28:15","slug":"rant-how-strong-are-your-convictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/2021\/03\/24\/rant-how-strong-are-your-convictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Rant: How strong are your convictions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-862 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Teacher-Rant-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Teacher-Rant-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Teacher-Rant-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Teacher-Rant.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Facebook is many things to many people, and one of those things Facebook is is something of a political discussion forum, like it or not.\u00a0 People post their particular views, other people respond, and all that&#8217;s fine as long as people aren&#8217;t abusive.\u00a0 And here&#8217;s the rub, some take forceful responses as something they aren&#8217;t prepared to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>Call me crazy, but I would think if all you want is a forum from which to spout your opinion, and are too thinned-skinned to suffer feedback, then maybe a public forum like Facebook isn&#8217;t for you.\u00a0 You should probably start a private blog instead of creating something like a public Facebook account which is designed specifically to be interactive.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a hint: If you post something that other people can read, those other people may respond&#8230; and they may not agree with you. Shocking, I know.\u00a0 Grow a thicker skin and get over it.\u00a0 If you find yourself blocking or unfriending people over it, maybe your convictions aren&#8217;t as strong as you think they are.<\/p>\n<p>\/rant off<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is many things to many people, and one of those things Facebook is is something of a political discussion forum, like it or not.\u00a0 People post their particular views, other people respond, and all that&#8217;s fine as long as people aren&#8217;t abusive.\u00a0 And here&#8217;s the rub, some take forceful responses as something they aren&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/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":[17,14,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observations","category-rant","category-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","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=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}