{"id":100,"date":"2004-04-30T00:32:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2008-12-23T20:50:57","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T02:50:57","slug":"100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/100\/","title":{"rendered":"When not being wrong is not enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I&#8217;ve had an hour or two to settle. I get really, really frustrated with people who fall short of my expectations. And people who smell weird. And people who are so self-centered that they can&#8217;t actually have a conversation with you; they just wait for their turn to talk about themselves and their stupid boyfriends. And people who giggle in class while others are talking. And people who hear Pauline Kael&#8217;s unflattering review of <em>Full Metal Jacket <\/em>and whisper with all seriousness, &#8220;That&#8217;s a woman for you.&#8221; And people who laugh when a professor recounts that during his time in Vietnam, soldiers called the native prostitutes &#8220;Little Brown Fuck Machines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly I need some fresh air, so I think I&#8217;ll take 15. But before I go, one more thing.<\/p>\n<p>I also get really annoyed at people who bitch a lot, which I know I do. So I know I annoy people like crazy. And I disappoint people, too, because I do and say stupid and immature things with suprising regularity. So I&#8217;m willing to forgive idiots for being idiots, as long as I don&#8217;t have to pretend to like them. May I use them as a tool to help me fight the urge to be just another stupid asshole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I&#8217;ve had an hour or two to settle. I get really, really frustrated with people who fall short of my expectations. And people who smell weird. And people who are so self-centered that they can&#8217;t actually have a conversation with you; they just wait for their turn to talk about themselves and their stupid boyfriends. And people who giggle in class while others are talking. And people who hear Pauline Kael&#8217;s unflattering review of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1jWWl-100","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}