{"id":3608,"date":"2016-04-08T09:23:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T13:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3608"},"modified":"2016-04-08T09:23:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T13:23:04","slug":"quote-for-the-day-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3608","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Generally, politeness and respectfulness are good things. Polly and I both taught our children to never be cross or disrespectful to others. Doing so has served them well as adults. There are times though, when I wonder if being taught always to be polite and respectful keeps us from properly responding to people who are assholes. Assholes tend to be narcissistic bullies \u2014 Donald Trump, for instance \u2014 who love to attack people who go through life trying to be decent and kind. I have learned \u2014 rather late in life \u2014 that sometimes it is okay to be impolite or disrespectful. Some people do not deserve politeness or respect.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brucegerencser.net\/2016\/04\/learning-to-say-no\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Gerencser<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Right.  It&#8217;s nice to be nice, but there is no moral duty to permit yourself to be eaten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally, politeness and respectfulness are good things. Polly and I both taught our children to never be cross or disrespectful to others. Doing so has served them well as adults. There are times though, when I wonder if being taught &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3608\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3609,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions\/3609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}