{"id":4964,"date":"2012-05-10T22:00:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T02:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=4964"},"modified":"2012-05-10T22:00:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T02:00:04","slug":"on-bullying-mitts-and-otherwise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2012\/05\/10\/on-bullying-mitts-and-otherwise\/","title":{"rendered":"On Bullying (Mitt&#8217;s and Otherwise)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Mitt Romney<a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/2012\/05\/is_mitt_romney_a_bully.php?ref=fpblg\"> participated in some pretty foul acts, in high school<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, I don&#8217;t think any adult should be condemned for an act undertaken in childhood\/teenage years. But I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s at all unfair to judge him on how he handles looking back at it from adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>I not only witnessed &#8211; but participated in &#8211; some awful behavior towards other kids. Did it kinda sorta make sense at the time? Sure. But as an adult, I look back, and I&#8217;m horrified at what a bunch of little monsters we were. And given the chance, I&#8217;d apologize a million times over for it.<\/p>\n<p>So when you&#8217;re given a chance, as an adult, to own up to it, and <a href=\"http:\/\/2012.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/05\/mitt-romney-apologizes-for-high-school-bullying.php?ref=fpblg\">you equivocate<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Screw you. You&#8217;re a shitty human being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Mitt Romney participated in some pretty foul acts, in high school. So, I don&#8217;t think any adult should be condemned for an act undertaken in childhood\/teenage years. But I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s at all unfair to judge him on how he handles looking back at it from adulthood. I not only witnessed &#8211; [&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":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964","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=4964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4965,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions\/4965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}