{"id":55846,"date":"2015-10-28T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55846"},"modified":"2015-11-11T10:13:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T16:13:39","slug":"the-world-is-their-safe-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55846","title":{"rendered":"The World Is Their Safe Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an old saying, which experience as a conservative in a liberal city shows to be utterly true: \u00a0&#8220;Conservatives believe Liberals are wrong; Liberals believe Conservatives are evil&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PC-Alert.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-56082\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PC-Alert.png\" alt=\"PC Alert!\" width=\"400\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PC-Alert.png 400w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PC-Alert-300x125.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Further evidence: \u00a0Liberals are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-switch\/wp\/2014\/10\/21\/liberals-are-more-likely-to-unfriend-you-over-politics-online-and-off\/\">vastly more likely to unfriend social media contacts <\/a>over politics than conservatives are.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d extend that; \u00a0conservative blogs, like mine, are highly likely to tolerate dissent in our various social media feeds; check and see how much dissent the likes of &#8220;Protect MN&#8221; or Sally Jo Sorenson tolerate in their online worlds when you&#8217;ve got time for an experiment.<\/p>\n<p>A very brief experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an old saying, which experience as a conservative in a liberal city shows to be utterly true: \u00a0&#8220;Conservatives believe Liberals are wrong; Liberals believe Conservatives are evil&#8221;. Further evidence: \u00a0Liberals are\u00a0vastly more likely to unfriend social media contacts over politics than conservatives are. I&#8217;d extend that; \u00a0conservative blogs, like mine, are highly likely to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56084,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55846\/revisions\/56084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}