{"id":638,"date":"2012-11-07T21:56:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T04:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=638"},"modified":"2012-11-07T23:02:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T06:02:16","slug":"i-believe-i-just-earned-an-unfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"I Believe I Just Earned an &#8220;Unfriend&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was following the twitter stream at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/\">Balloon Juice<\/a> during the election coverage. John Cole announced that his commanding officer from Desert Storm had unfriended him on facebook when the election was called for Obama. That really sucks. But in that spirit, I would like to proffer a facebook friend (with whom I served in the Army many years ago) the same opportunity. He is an obnoxious public-largesse-reliant deadbeat who divides his abundant free time between vocally god-bothering and aggressively decrying liberals. All the while, of course, he is sucking shamelessly at the government teat.<\/p>\n<p>I read this:<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_642\" style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/irony1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-642\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/irony1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"irony\" width=\"535\" height=\"153\" class=\"size-full wp-image-642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/irony1.jpg 535w, https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/irony1-300x85.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/irony1-500x142.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The irony is painful, but only if you can see it.<\/p><\/div>It was worthy of comment, but I thought better of it.  Then I read this:<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_640\" style=\"width: 504px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/throne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-640\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/throne.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"throne\" width=\"494\" height=\"210\" class=\"size-full wp-image-640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/throne.jpg 494w, https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/throne-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I left the comment shown. Let the countdown to &#8220;unfriend&#8221; begin&#8230;<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was following the twitter stream at Balloon Juice during the election coverage. John Cole announced that his commanding officer from Desert Storm had unfriended him on facebook when the election was called for Obama. That really sucks. But in that spirit, I would like to proffer a facebook friend (with whom I served in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}