{"id":61099,"date":"2016-11-25T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61099"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:11:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T06:11:58","slug":"devils-of-our-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61099","title":{"rendered":"Devils Of Our Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to indulige in\u00a0<em>schadenfreude<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Part of it is because I&#8217;m a pretty emphathetic guy. \u00a0I put myself in others&#8217; shoes pretty easily.<\/p>\n<p>Part of it is that while I don&#8217;t believe in karma, I\u00a0<em>do\u00a0<\/em>believe what goes around comes around.<\/p>\n<p>However, hearing about the psychic trauma some &#8220;blue-staters&#8221; are feeling over this past weeks, I&#8217;m rapidly giving into my worse nature and saying &#8220;Good. \u00a0Suffer, you vacuous hamsters. \u00a0If your well-being is so wrapped around a presidential election that it affects your mental health, you should really not participate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But Mitch &#8211; isn&#8217;t that an unfair caricature?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/mental-health-addiction\/2016\/11\/blue-state-blues-expert-offers-advice-those-still-reeling-election\">no &#8211; it&#8217;s not<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to indulige in\u00a0schadenfreude. Part of it is because I&#8217;m a pretty emphathetic guy. \u00a0I put myself in others&#8217; shoes pretty easily. Part of it is that while I don&#8217;t believe in karma, I\u00a0do\u00a0believe what goes around comes around. However, hearing about the psychic trauma some &#8220;blue-staters&#8221; are feeling over this past weeks, I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,308,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-16","category-entitled-america","category-slander-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61099","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=61099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61104,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61099\/revisions\/61104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}