{"id":225,"date":"2013-03-31T08:54:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T13:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/blog\/?p=225"},"modified":"2013-04-17T16:49:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T21:49:09","slug":"posting-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"RULES OF ENGAGEMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Be gracious. <\/em>Steer clear of ad hominems, sarcasm, grinding axes, and all forms of nastiness.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Be brief.<\/em>\u00a0 Shoot for fifty words or less.\u00a0 Note to folks who give lengthy comments on blogs: watch how your comments are addressed more frequently by being brief.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Be teachable.<\/em>\u00a0 All of us have much to learn.\u00a0 Alexis de Tocqueville observed most people \u201ceither believe things without knowing why, or do not know what it is they ought to believe.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I will not be able to respond to every comment.\u00a0 When I do, I will seek diligently to follow the gracious, brief, and teachable triumvirate above.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be gracious. Steer clear of ad hominems, sarcasm, grinding axes, and all forms of nastiness. Be brief.\u00a0 Shoot for fifty words or less.\u00a0 Note to folks who give lengthy comments on blogs: watch how your comments are addressed more frequently by being brief. Be teachable.\u00a0 All of us have much to learn.\u00a0 Alexis de Tocqueville [&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":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}