{"id":3073,"date":"2016-02-15T14:41:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T21:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2016-02-15T14:41:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T21:41:37","slug":"oh-no-someones-wrong-on-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/15\/oh-no-someones-wrong-on-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh no, someone&#8217;s wrong on the Internet!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160214_163246.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" alt=\"20160214_163246.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What I\u2019ve discovered is that even if you definitively know something, that won\u2019t stop someone online from snapping back with stupid, every step of the way. What\u2019s worse, my rule of threes says that in any discussion, one third of their points will be wrong, one third of your points will be wrong, and the middle third will remain an area of durable disagreement.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no cure for online idiots, but, fortunately, your own ignorance is correctable. Get into an argument with someone? Don\u2019t try to get the last word &#8211; go look up the truth. (Or do the work to prove it, if it isn\u2019t known). And be satisfied with your own answers.<\/p>\n<p>Because if you found the truth and told them, that particular person isn\u2019t likely to listen anyway.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I\u2019ve discovered is that even if you definitively know something, that won\u2019t stop someone online from snapping back with stupid, every step of the way. What\u2019s worse, my rule&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-3073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-we-call-it-living","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}