{"id":8011,"date":"2018-03-24T23:02:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T03:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=8011"},"modified":"2018-03-27T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T19:00:10","slug":"political-party-i-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=8011","title":{"rendered":"Political Party I Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone, possibly from the Democrats camp, asked me recently which political party I would support. Republican, I quickly responded without a second thought, not because it's the obvious answer to me, but because I was just trying to provoke a thought. Bad move.<\/p>\n<p>I could have said Conservative, but fearing that may not be clear to some people.<\/p>\n<p>I should have said, given the time and place where I am, \"Whichever party that listens more than talk\" - This should be obvious, that many post-modernists (such as many Democrats) love to speak their mind and absolutize their opinions, rather than listen to their opponents' arguments.<\/p>\n<p>It's equally fine to say \"whichever party that is willing to debate with their opponents in all fairness instead of demonize them\" or<\/p>\n<p>\"Listen rather than wanting to be listened\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone, possibly from the Democrats camp, asked me recently which political party I would support. Republican, I quickly responded without a second thought, not because it's the obvious answer to me, but because I was just trying to provoke a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=8011\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faults","category-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8014,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8011\/revisions\/8014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}