{"id":140,"date":"2017-11-03T05:30:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T05:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=140"},"modified":"2017-11-03T05:30:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T05:30:41","slug":"11-2-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2017\/11\/03\/11-2-17\/","title":{"rendered":"11.2.17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Do you ever feel the need to play Devil&#8217;s Advocate?\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nAll the time. \u00a0I don&#8217;t do it to be controversial or combative (most of the time), but I sincerely believe that people need to understand both viewpoints to any argument. \u00a0One thing I absolutely can&#8217;t stand is when someone won&#8217;t listen to an argument, just because they don&#8217;t like a certain group or person. \u00a0This abounds during the current administration, because it is Trump and the Republicans, nothing good can be done. \u00a0Well I can tell you all of the good the Affordable Care Act has done for me, but it&#8217;s a very short list, and I&#8217;d be getting off topic. \u00a0Maybe that will be another topic for another day.<br \/>\nPlaying the Devil&#8217;s Advocate for me leads a person to better understand an issue, because it gives an unbiased view and generally provides a complete set of facts.<br \/>\nUntil tomorrow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever feel the need to play Devil&#8217;s Advocate?\u00a0 All the time. \u00a0I don&#8217;t do it to be controversial or combative (most of the time), but I sincerely believe that people need to understand both viewpoints to any argument. \u00a0One thing I absolutely can&#8217;t stand is when someone won&#8217;t listen to an argument, just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}