{"id":8369,"date":"2018-06-27T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8369"},"modified":"2018-06-27T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T18:00:10","slug":"tweet-of-the-day-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8369","title":{"rendered":"Tweet of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">History teaches us there are limits to the power of civility in the face of extremism: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wOAyIQPzDN\">https:\/\/t.co\/wOAyIQPzDN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JdkUTJ2Yji\">pic.twitter.com\/JdkUTJ2Yji<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Slate (@Slate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Slate\/status\/1012012048388165632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Right.  It is far more effective to make plain to people like Sarah Sanders, Corey Lewandowski, Kellyanne Conway <i>et cetera<\/i> that they aren&#8217;t fooling everybody and they are not welcome.  Maxine Waters goes too far when she calls for relentless public harassment, but it is entirely right and proper to refuse to associate with these people.  They are liars and bullies and haven&#8217;t any business amongst decent people, and they won&#8217;t stop &#8212; they lack an internal brake &#8212; until they are hit with a cost that gets their attention: Social approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History teaches us there are limits to the power of civility in the face of extremism: https:\/\/t.co\/wOAyIQPzDN pic.twitter.com\/JdkUTJ2Yji &mdash; Slate (@Slate) June 27, 2018 Right. It is far more effective to make plain to people like Sarah Sanders, Corey Lewandowski, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8369\">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\/8369"}],"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=8369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8372,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369\/revisions\/8372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}