{"id":23422,"date":"2024-11-10T19:41:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T00:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23422"},"modified":"2024-11-10T19:41:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T00:41:43","slug":"reactions-and-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23422","title":{"rendered":"Reactions and Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>I deactivated my Twitter account today. If I don&#8217;t reactivate it within 30 days, it will be permanently deleted, and permanent deletion is the goal. I also posted a good-bye message on Facebook, and I&#8217;ll be deactivating that account shortly. Last week, I&#8217;d thought I&#8217;d wait until closer to the end of the year to delete my social media. I expedited the change because I was wallowing too much. A little wallowing was called for, but there are limits, and I have better things to do.<\/li><li>My WaPo subscription will end tomorrow, and I canceled the NYT a while ago. So, I&#8217;m pretty much without a dependable news source. That&#8217;s fine for now. I don&#8217;t want to dwell on the news anyway. I&#8217;m planning to read through just enough of the headlines each day to get a broad understanding of current events without getting caught up in the details or getting upset about them. That&#8217;s how I got through the end of the previous shit-show, and I hope it will work again. My only regret is that I&#8217;m not supporting any journalists. I will look for ways to do that next year.<\/li><li>I&#8217;ve decided not to cut ties with friends and family whose politics disagree with my own. When spending time with these people, I probably won&#8217;t deliberately introduce any political topics. But I also won&#8217;t shy away from them. If the subjects arise, I&#8217;m going to say what I think, and I&#8217;m not going to worry too much about anybody&#8217;s fee-fees. I&#8217;m not going to be rude (I hope), but I&#8217;m also not going to coddle anyone&#8217;s ego. The time for coddling is over. The time for raw truth has come.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I deactivated my Twitter account today. If I don&#8217;t reactivate it within 30 days, it will be permanently deleted, and permanent deletion is the goal. I also posted a good-bye message on Facebook, and I&#8217;ll be deactivating that account shortly. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23422\">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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23422"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23424,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23422\/revisions\/23424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}