{"id":3061,"date":"2010-03-25T17:44:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T21:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=3061"},"modified":"2010-03-25T17:44:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T21:44:28","slug":"on-extremists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/on-extremists\/","title":{"rendered":"[On] Extremists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reality is, no matter your beliefs, chances are you can find and connect with other people who share the same views.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s great, now you can have a club.<\/p>\n<p>A place for all the extremists to hang out. \u00a0Being at the edge is good. \u00a0However when you realise that you can always find someone to reinforce existing beliefs&#8230; not so good.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d be better off chatting to other crazies. \u00a0Those that will debate and push back. \u00a0For they will ground you, keep you in check but also challenge. \u00a0Rather than reinforce.<\/p>\n<p>Just a thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reality is, no matter your beliefs, chances are you can find and connect with other people who share the same views. That&#8217;s great, now you can have a club. A place for all the extremists to hang out. \u00a0Being at the edge is good. \u00a0However when you realise that you can always find someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[237,245,457,566,1300],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}