{"id":1494,"date":"2013-04-29T15:55:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T20:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2013-05-01T18:13:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T23:13:26","slug":"she-said-what-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2013\/04\/29\/she-said-what-now\/","title":{"rendered":"She said what now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/D4M10N\/status\/328709041419333632\" target=\"_blank\">Just yesterday<\/a>, I sarcastically lamented the lack of drama around here. Really, I should have known better than to do that. From Stephanie Zvan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/FreethoughtBlogs\/~3\/iqNz1IVsajc\/\">latest post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0 This bit about soliciting harassment complaints, however, is flat-out, ahistorical nonsense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now where in the World Wide Web could I possibly have gotten this <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/szvan\/status\/293191207671181312\" target=\"_blank\">ahistorical nonsense<\/a> into my head?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1495\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1495\" style=\"width: 539px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/04\/untitled3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1495\" alt=\"How to use friends to influence people\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/04\/untitled3.png\" width=\"539\" height=\"1699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/04\/untitled3.png 539w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/04\/untitled3-95x300.png 95w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How to get friends to influence people<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I leave it as an\u00a0exercise\u00a0to the reader to determine precisely what\u00a0Stephanie believes would be better done sooner than later, but given the context, I think that it is abundantly clear what is going on here. If you&#8217;ve a different view, please feel free to let me know in the comments, but please remember I always\u00a0expect a certain amount of <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2013\/02\/15\/civility-and-its-discontents\/\">civility<\/a> here on my site.\u00a0Dehumanizing comments like &#8220;dumb as a pulverized brick&#8221; won&#8217;t help anyone learn anything or move the conversation forward in any way.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>ETA:<\/strong> The Twitter convo excerpted above\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/storify.com\/D4M10N\/why-exclude-vacula-from-wiscfi\">continues here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just yesterday, I sarcastically lamented the lack of drama around here. Really, I should have known better than to do&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}