{"id":23753,"date":"2011-06-06T12:45:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T16:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23753"},"modified":"2011-06-06T18:31:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T22:31:36","slug":"a-good-rant-can-be-fun-and-maybe-even-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23753","title":{"rendered":"A Good Rant can be fun and maybe even healthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fellow West Virginian and retired Army guy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jdpendry.com\/2011\/06\/05\/snob-class-versus-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">J. D. Pendry has a post up<\/a> about The Snob Class and the rest of us.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Can you even watch the news without pounding your head against the  kitchen countertop?  If so, you are a better man than me.  It is  difficult to maintain the mellowed-out docile personality that I have  worked hard to develop 12 years post-Army.  I want to yell not so nice  words in the direction of the television and kick some furniture.   Fortunately, my wife\u2019s frowning on such behavior keeps me in check.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I said in a comment over there, I simply don\u2019t watch TV news or the talking heads. I\u2019m an  ignorant old fart who reads his news (albeit on-line), and then checks  the sources as best I can.<\/p>\n<p>I gave up when opinion replaced news, and bias tainted both. Might  have been when Uncle Walter told me The War was lost while I was still  fighting it?<\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s good not to hold things in and stew on them then J. D.&#8217;s post will improve the health of many. YMMV<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=106775685\" target=\"_blank\">Added for clarity: <\/a>You young folks may dismiss this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fellow West Virginian and retired Army guy J. D. Pendry has a post up about The &hellip; <a title=\"A Good Rant can be fun and maybe even healthy\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23753\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Good Rant can be fun and maybe even healthy<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}