{"id":504,"date":"2016-11-21T11:02:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T11:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emaren.com\/?p=504"},"modified":"2023-03-27T11:03:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T10:03:42","slug":"irreconcilable-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/irreconcilable-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"Irreconcilable Differences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To my American friends.<\/p>\n<p>During the run-up to the recent election, my Facebook newsfeed was filled with political stuff, posting after posting &#8216;informing&#8217; your friends how evil the other side is and how stupid you would have to be to vote for them.<\/p>\n<p>I think that is it highly unlikely that you had any effect on the election.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, my Facebook feed is filled with spite, anger, disappointment and gloating.<\/p>\n<p>That you are aggrieved that \u00a0&#8216;your side&#8217; won\/lost makes absolutely no difference to the result.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve stepped away from Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>2023 Edit: I am still not checking on Facebook &#8211; Thanks for the time back !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To my American friends. During the run-up to the recent election, my Facebook newsfeed was filled with political stuff, posting after posting &#8216;informing&#8217; your friends how evil the other side is and how stupid you would have to be to vote for them. I think that is it highly unlikely that you had any effect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[133,134,54,135],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-america","tag-facebook","tag-idiots","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2049,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/2049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}