{"id":11140,"date":"2023-02-10T13:17:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T18:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=11140"},"modified":"2023-02-10T13:17:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T18:17:41","slug":"red-meat-friday-a-close-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=11140","title":{"rendered":"Red Meat Friday: A Close Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve never understood the allure of Twitter. It is, without doubt, a toxic environment<sup><a id=\"fnr.1\" class=\"footref\" href=\"#fn.1\" role=\"doc-backlink\">1<\/a><\/sup> and while it may, according to whom you ask, have become more benign under Musk it\u2019s still not, by and large, a place sensible people want to be.<\/p>\n<p>Leave it to the Babylon Bee to perfectly capture the Zeitgeist:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Man Narrowly Escapes Peace Of Mind With Well-Timed Twitter Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fUQeu3FKd6\">https:\/\/t.co\/fUQeu3FKd6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBabylonBee\/status\/1622625917813026817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"footnotes\">\n<h2 class=\"footnotes\">Footnotes:<\/h2>\n<div id=\"text-footnotes\">\n<div class=\"footdef\"><sup><a id=\"fn.1\" class=\"footnum\" href=\"#fnr.1\" role=\"doc-backlink\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<div class=\"footpara\" role=\"doc-footnote\">\n<p class=\"footpara\">\nYes, of course there are exceptions but the predominate vibe is take-no-prisoners political vitriol.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve never understood the allure of Twitter. It is, without doubt, a toxic environment1 and while it may, according to whom you ask, have become more benign under Musk it\u2019s still not, by and large, a place sensible people want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=11140\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11141,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11140\/revisions\/11141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}