{"id":1791,"date":"2016-02-03T23:36:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T07:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2016-02-03T23:36:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T07:36:05","slug":"i-have-the-honor-to-be-your-obedient-servant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2016\/02\/i-have-the-honor-to-be-your-obedient-servant\/","title":{"rendered":"\"I Have the Honor to Be Your Obedient Servant\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the blog recently told me that I'm meaner in meatspace (what some prefer to call by the bizarre misnomer &quot;real life&quot;) than you would guess from my online persona. I'm not proud to have prompted this observation, but I didn't deny it, either. And yet\u2014insofar as one has any reflectively-endorsed non-nice social impulses (to create incentives for good behavior, or perhaps from an ungentle although-<em>sadistic<\/em>-would-be-far-too-strong-of-a-word \u00e6sthetic that appreciates a world in which people don't always get everything they want), it <em>does<\/em> seem like the correct strategy: in meatspace, you can react to verbal <em>and nonverbal<\/em> cues <em>in real time<\/em> and try to smooth things over if you go too far, whereas in the blogosphere, it's possible to <em>die<\/em> in a harrowing thermonuclear flamewar and not even <em>know<\/em> until you check your messages the next day. We <em>must<\/em> use diplomacy where we cannot wield our weapons so precisely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the blog recently told me that I'm meaner in meatspace (what some prefer to call by the bizarre misnomer &quot;real life&quot;) than you would guess from my online persona. I'm not proud to have prompted this observation, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2016\/02\/i-have-the-honor-to-be-your-obedient-servant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1792,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions\/1792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}