{"id":495,"date":"2005-07-31T01:45:09-04:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-31T06:45:09+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/?p=495"},"modified":"2005-07-31T01:46:13-04:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-31T06:46:13+00:00","slug":"one-mans-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2005\/07\/31\/one-mans-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"One man&#8217;s&nbsp;opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><blockquote cite=\"Harlan Ellison: An Edge in My Voice, Installment 35\"><p>Voicing one&#8217;s informed opinion is a responsibility gladly shouldered by any concerned citizen.  The operative word, of course, is <cite class=\"term\">informed<\/cite>.<\/p>\r\n<p>The old saw that <q>everyone is entitled to his\/her opinion<\/q> is, in my informed view, horse puckey.  These days, information is easy enough to come by, if one merely seeks it out.  Thus, no one is <em>entitled<\/em> to a stupid, uninformed or irrational opinion.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voicing one&#8217;s informed opinion is a responsibility gladly shouldered by any concerned citizen. The operative word, of course, is informed. The old saw that everyone is entitled to his\/her opinion is, in my informed view, horse puckey. These days, information is easy enough to come by, if one merely seeks it out. Thus, no one&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}