{"id":7287,"date":"2017-08-31T12:52:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T17:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7287"},"modified":"2017-08-31T12:54:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T17:54:28","slug":"how-to-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7287","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO DEBATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Most of us debate poorly.\u00a0 There are a number of factors like not knowing what we believe as well as we should, presenting a caricature of an opposing position, and even if we don&#8217;t err with those two, we tend to get testy!\u00a0 My number one resource for making improvement is <em>The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion<\/em> by Jonathan Haidt.\u00a0 I wish every American would read and ponder this seminal book.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion\/dp\/0307455777\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion\/dp\/0307455777<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a good example of how to do better:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Donna and Bob - An Unlikely Friendship\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4dMMCVfKP9s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us debate poorly.\u00a0 There are a number of factors like not knowing what we believe as well as we should, presenting a caricature of an opposing position, and even if we don&#8217;t err with those two, we tend to get testy!\u00a0 My number one resource for making improvement is The Righteous Mind: Why [&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":[122,88,111,87,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-controversy","category-culture","category-emotions","category-friendship","category-learningeducation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287","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=7287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7289,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287\/revisions\/7289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}