{"id":4854,"date":"2011-11-27T21:43:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T01:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=4854"},"modified":"2011-11-27T21:43:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T01:43:30","slug":"opinions-and-the-fixation-thereof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2011\/11\/27\/opinions-and-the-fixation-thereof\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinions and the Fixation Thereof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that Kansas Gov. Brownback is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/teen-whose-tweet-about-kan-gov-got-her-in-trouble-at-school-refuses-to-write-apology-letter\/2011\/11\/27\/gIQANSN72N_story.html\">kind of sensitive<\/a> about what people think of him:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Brownback\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office, which monitors social media for postings containing the governor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name, saw [a 14 year old] Sullivan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s post [that imagined her telling the Governor that he, essentially, &#8220;sucked&#8221;] \u00c2\u00a0and contacted the Youth in Government program.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan received a scolding at school and was ordered to send Brownback an apology letter. She said Prinicipal Karl R. Krawitz even suggested talking points for the letter she was supposed to turn in Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mostly, I think it&#8217;s kinda funny. \u00c2\u00a0Seriously, the random twittering of a 14 year old girl is worth your reaction? \u00c2\u00a0Kinda makes Sam sound like an insecure 14 year old girl himself, doesn&#8217;t it? \u00c2\u00a0If that threatens you, you must be terribly insecure in your own position, no?<\/p>\n<p>In any event, I wonder how this sort of thing will play out over time. \u00c2\u00a0Some places, like Thailand, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/inquirer\/news\/2127445\/imprisoned-text-messages-thailands-king\">can&#8217;t abide criticism of some people at all<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0And as ridiculous as that approach seems to many of us, right now, you wonder if that&#8217;s going to be the practical approach, in the future. \u00c2\u00a0And remember, Americans, you&#8217;ve already been told &#8211; by a president&#8217;s press secretary &#8211; to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/fighting_words\/2006\/09\/fear_factor.html\">watch what you say<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that Kansas Gov. Brownback is kind of sensitive about what people think of him: But Brownback\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office, which monitors social media for postings containing the governor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name, saw [a 14 year old] Sullivan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s post [that imagined her telling the Governor that he, essentially, &#8220;sucked&#8221;] \u00c2\u00a0and contacted the Youth in Government program. Sullivan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4856,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions\/4856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}