{"id":466,"date":"2003-02-19T16:06:35","date_gmt":"2003-02-19T11:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/466"},"modified":"2003-02-19T16:06:35","modified_gmt":"2003-02-19T11:06:35","slug":"meetup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/466","title":{"rendered":"Meetup"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m going to the Blog Meetup<\/a> here in Austin tonight. I’m a little nervous because upon reading the blogs of the others hwo have RSVP’d, looks like they are all extreme Bush-bashers and active participants in anti-war protests. I really don’t want tonight to turn into a big political discussion. <\/p>\n

I’m not pro-war, but I’m definitely not anti-war either. Like hub explained to the three year old, sometimes there are things we don’t want to do, but we have to do them anyway. I don’t know exactly why we have<\/i> to go after Saddam Hussein right now; seems like we’d be better of finishing the hunt for Bin Laden and taking care of his sorry ass before we declare war with Iraq, but all American presidents seem to think it’s cool to take on more than one major project at once. Not just this one.<\/p>\n

I was raised that you may have disagreements within your family, but they stay within the family, and even if you’re in the midst of a mortal battle with a family member, you still show a united front to someone who’s not a family member. This may not be the most enlightened way of doing things in the world, but it’s mine.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I hate being outnumbered by people with such different viewpoints at a social event, especially if they all start in on me because I think differently. It makes me really uncomfortable. I hope the conversation doesn’t get any more heated than Movable Type<\/a> vs. Blogger<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m going to the Blog Meetup here in Austin tonight. I’m a little nervous because upon reading the blogs of the others hwo have RSVP’d, looks like they are all extreme Bush-bashers and active participants in anti-war protests. I really don’t want tonight to turn into a big political discussion. I’m not pro-war, but I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}