{"id":590,"date":"2006-06-06T18:02:17","date_gmt":"2006-06-06T22:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/06\/06\/not_pissed_but_\/"},"modified":"2006-06-06T18:02:17","modified_gmt":"2006-06-06T22:02:17","slug":"not_pissed_but_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/06\/06\/not_pissed_but_\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Pissed, But Miffed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NPR apparently had a story recently where a reporter asked an Army Corps of Engineer representative, \u201cYou hear people who are really pissed at the Corps. What do you say to those people?\u201d<br \/>\nSome listeners were outraged.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5452082\">Scroll to<\/a> &#8220;Getting Angry At the Army Corps of Engineers.&#8221;)  <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not, but I do think it\u2019s an example of impolite language that shouldn\u2019t be part of a public discussion.  Of course, I use it all the time.  So do my late-teen and early-20 children.  I used to correct them when they were younger.  Now, I suggest they not use it in a job interview or in a paper they\u2019re writing.  <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all about the coarsening of public debate, and yes, it is a \u201cmorals\u201d issue or a \u201cvalue\u201d issue, Dems ought to accept, rather than suggest people who complain about such language are prudes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR apparently had a story recently where a reporter asked an Army Corps of Engineer representative, \u201cYou hear people who are really pissed at the Corps. What do you say to those people?\u201d Some listeners were outraged. (Scroll to &#8220;Getting Angry At the Army Corps of Engineers.&#8221;) I\u2019m not, but I do think it\u2019s an&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/06\/06\/not_pissed_but_\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}