{"id":8,"date":"2005-03-06T20:24:49","date_gmt":"2005-03-06T14:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2017-01-27T17:00:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T21:00:34","slug":"i-have-to-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2005\/03\/06\/i-have-to-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"I have to wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to wonder sometime what exactly goes through the minds of people. Especially the self deceptions and the double standards they seem to have. Deceiving one&#8217;s self is probably the worse kind of lying one can commit. But in the course of my investigations I keep running across people with little grasp of reality, a strange notion that insulting people or killing the messenger is going to somehow gain them any kind of respect. Name calling and belligerence is OK so long as it&#8217;s against someone they disagree with. Purposeful misrepresentation of the facts is all right so long as it&#8217;s for a good cause.<\/p>\n<p>These things are never OK. Not even if you have a beef. It&#8217;s far better to direct one&#8217;s issues with the offending party and drop the whole thing when the message is delivered. Much less drama that way but people in the believe community seem to disagree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to wonder sometime what exactly goes through the minds of people. Especially the self deceptions and the double standards they seem to have. Deceiving one&#8217;s self is probably the worse kind of lying one can commit. But in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2005\/03\/06\/i-have-to-wonder\/\">Continue reading <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":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2867,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/2867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}