{"id":55275,"date":"2011-08-06T16:39:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T20:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/55275\/unblocked\/"},"modified":"2011-08-06T16:39:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T20:39:32","slug":"unblocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/55275\/unblocked\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Is Now Unblocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have seen that many of us liberal bloggers have been called cowards because we have blocked certain people from participating on our blogs.<\/p>\n<p>If you are here to argue, you will probably be blocked again.  I don&#8217;t have the time to argue, that is for the school yard.  I grew up a few years ago.  Arguments are usually based on emotions and beliefs and have nothing to do with facts.  I have let myself be drawn into these arguments and no longer wish to participate.<\/p>\n<p>If you are here to debate, I welcome you.  Debates, unlike arguments are based on facts.  People can and do draw different conclusions from the same set of facts.<\/p>\n<p>It has been said that opinions are like assholes.  Everybody has one.  This is true.  However, if your opinion is based on hearsay and does not hold up to facts, your opinion is not welcome on my blog.  I prefer to debate with intelligent people.<\/p>\n<p>Some of you have need of a lesson in critical thinking, so I am putting a video about critical thinking on this blog.  Everyone is encouraged to watch it before commenting.<\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have seen that many of us liberal bloggers have been called cowards because we have blocked certain people from participating on our blogs. If you are here to argue, you will probably be blocked again. I don&#8217;t have the time to argue, that is for the school yard. I grew up a few years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,1428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-people","category-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55275","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=55275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}