{"id":53909,"date":"2011-07-29T23:31:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T03:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/53909\/i-tried\/"},"modified":"2011-07-29T23:31:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T03:31:54","slug":"i-tried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/53909\/i-tried\/","title":{"rendered":"I Tried"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to be a mediator.  I tried to find a common ground with those on the right.  I resisted blocking people.<\/p>\n<p>I firmly believe that only through dialogue with those we disagree with can we find a common ground.  It&#8217;s there, I&#8217;ve seen a glimmer here and there.<\/p>\n<p>Some people have decided to take it to the extreme though and become very offensive.  I can no long accept dialogue with those who preach and condone hate.  I have finally had to draw a line.<\/p>\n<p>I feel though that it is something that I lack in not being able to reach out.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to be a mediator. I tried to find a common ground with those on the right. I resisted blocking people. I firmly believe that only through dialogue with those we disagree with can we find a common ground. It&#8217;s there, I&#8217;ve seen a glimmer here and there. Some people have decided to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}