{"id":2672,"date":"2018-09-28T10:25:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T18:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2018-09-28T10:25:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T18:25:35","slug":"coping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=2672","title":{"rendered":"coping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u2026you have to wall off the stupid. You have to reduce it to the least possible background roar. You have to let your mind slip off of it to something else, make sure you don\u2019t have a chance to focus on it. \u00a0That\u2019s where the books come in handy. Or some really engaging television. That\u2019s why pulling the plug on Twitter is crucial, and having pared down the RSS to just what you need to be informed without tipping the balance into wallowing in the misery.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You have to try not to think about how you left Alabama because you didn\u2019t want to live in a place that venerated stupid, that made its decisions based on what stupid people thought was smart, that thought <strong>you<\/strong> were the problem because you \u201cdidn\u2019t have any common sense,\u201d as if failure to adopt everyone else&#8217;s inculcated prejudices was a shortcoming or as if you should have learned all the cues and clues of a social system that ejected you as soon as you could read in complete sentences ahead of time. You <strong>left<\/strong> all that. It wasn&#8217;t supposed to follow you. It certainly wasn&#8217;t meant to gain executive power over the country&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-21 March 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026you have to wall off the stupid. You have to reduce it to the least possible background roar. You have to let your mind slip off of it to something else, make sure you don\u2019t have a chance to focus on it. \u00a0That\u2019s where the books come in handy. Or some really engaging television. That\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=2672\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;coping&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2673,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions\/2673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}