{"id":85707,"date":"2023-08-16T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85707"},"modified":"2023-08-14T09:03:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T14:03:20","slug":"thick-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85707","title":{"rendered":"Thick Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Also true for movies, literature, art, theater, even standup comedy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"605\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/089d94a9-9254-41aa-956d-b39d0dabd8a4-30177-000010325f5706e5_file-1024x605.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85706\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/089d94a9-9254-41aa-956d-b39d0dabd8a4-30177-000010325f5706e5_file-1024x605.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/089d94a9-9254-41aa-956d-b39d0dabd8a4-30177-000010325f5706e5_file-300x177.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/089d94a9-9254-41aa-956d-b39d0dabd8a4-30177-000010325f5706e5_file-768x454.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/089d94a9-9254-41aa-956d-b39d0dabd8a4-30177-000010325f5706e5_file-500x296.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/089d94a9-9254-41aa-956d-b39d0dabd8a4-30177-000010325f5706e5_file.jpg 1098w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not inclined to care much about whether someone who produces something I want, need or enjoy &#8220;hates&#8221; me &#8211; least of all with anything remotely artistic.  Especially with music &#8211; consuming which gives the artist almost no money unless you buy merchandise or go to a concert.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You produce some piece of music I love, but you hate me?  Laugh&#8217;s on you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the cartoon is correct in that the left has grown as entitled about art as they have about, say, minority, female and gay voters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also true for movies, literature, art, theater, even standup comedy: I&#8217;m not inclined to care much about whether someone who produces something I want, need or enjoy &#8220;hates&#8221; me &#8211; least of all with anything remotely artistic. Especially with music &#8211; consuming which gives the artist almost no money unless you buy merchandise or go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85707","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=85707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85712,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85707\/revisions\/85712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}