{"id":1894,"date":"2012-10-08T11:18:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T15:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2012-10-08T11:18:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T15:18:13","slug":"birth-of-the-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/08\/birth-of-the-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth of the Crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out my neighbor is a &#8220;birther.&#8221; That&#8217;s how my evening was.<\/p>\n<p>When a person can&#8217;t tell you what evidence they would have see to change their position on an issue, or what it would take for them to reconsider the certainty with which they view an issue or political party or ideology or belief system or whatever, when they can&#8217;t tell you what their own criteria for being wrong is, then you&#8217;ll never win that argument. As long as a person can&#8217;t set up for themselves how they know if they&#8217;re right or wrong, then they&#8217;ll live in a constant delusion forever, never knowing the the truth yet believing they have it.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t waste another minute describing anything having to do with the conversation last night.<\/p>\n<p>Cold Oct. 8, 2012. Feels good. Busy week ahead with serious training just around the corner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out my neighbor is a &#8220;birther.&#8221; That&#8217;s how my evening was. When a person can&#8217;t tell you what evidence they would have see to change their position on an issue, or what it would take for them to reconsider &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/08\/birth-of-the-crazy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1896,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions\/1896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}