{"id":59916,"date":"2016-08-10T13:22:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T18:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59916"},"modified":"2016-08-09T13:31:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:31:52","slug":"your-silence-speaks-volumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59916","title":{"rendered":"Your Silence Speaks Volumes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Truth!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/13912646_842777665857312_5653717111611524822_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-59917\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/13912646_842777665857312_5653717111611524822_n-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"13912646_842777665857312_5653717111611524822_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/13912646_842777665857312_5653717111611524822_n-300x280.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/13912646_842777665857312_5653717111611524822_n-768x717.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/13912646_842777665857312_5653717111611524822_n-321x300.jpg 321w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/13912646_842777665857312_5653717111611524822_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among the best ways for me to file your &#8220;argument&#8221; under &#8220;not worth the effort&#8221; is to begin with something like &#8220;your silence about [pick an issue that is not actually the subject of the current discussion] speaks volumes&#8221;, delivered with a rhetorical and literal &#8220;shame finger&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I do appreciate the vote of confidence &#8211; your apparent belief that my\u00a0<em>addressing an issue\u00a0<\/em>on my show or blog will have some sort of affect on that issue over time, and that my &#8220;silence&#8221; &#8211; generally less &#8220;silence&#8221; than &#8220;lack of opportunity, interest, or any angle on which I have anything to contribute to the discussion&#8221; will cause the world such damage.<\/p>\n<p>I assure you, it will not, but thanks for thinking I&#8217;m such a big cheese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truth! Among the best ways for me to file your &#8220;argument&#8221; under &#8220;not worth the effort&#8221; is to begin with something like &#8220;your silence about [pick an issue that is not actually the subject of the current discussion] speaks volumes&#8221;, delivered with a rhetorical and literal &#8220;shame finger&#8221;. I mean, I do appreciate the vote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59916","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=59916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59918,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59916\/revisions\/59918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}