{"id":22201,"date":"2013-10-25T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T05:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=22201"},"modified":"2013-10-24T19:48:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T00:48:02","slug":"qotd-the-dangers-of-reading-internet-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/10\/25\/qotd-the-dangers-of-reading-internet-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The dangers of reading internet comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I joke \u2014 hilariously \u2014 but there is a serious issue here. At least, I assume there is. Frankly, I can\u2019t remember, because I made the mistake of scrolling down to the reader comments about the visa story. Reading online comments is like letting someone punch your brain in the face with a fistful of stupid. If you doubt this, consider that I\u2019ve been hit with the \u201cfist of stupid\u201d so many times, I now think brains have faces. Kudos, Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Feschuk, <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2013\/09\/20\/mexico-is-mad-at-us-and-it-is-so-a-big-whup\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Mexico is \u2018really mad\u2019 at us, and it is so a big whoop: Diplomacy should be more like \u2018Mean Girls\u2019&#8221;, <em>Maclean&#8217;s<\/em><\/a>, 2013-09-20<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I joke \u2014 hilariously \u2014 but there is a serious issue here. At least, I assume there is. Frankly, I can\u2019t remember, because I made the mistake of scrolling down to the reader comments about the visa story. Reading online comments is like letting someone punch your brain in the face with a fistful of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,28,41],"tags":[204,58,213],"class_list":["post-22201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","category-quotations","tag-blogging","tag-internet","tag-newspapers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5M5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22203,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22201\/revisions\/22203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}