{"id":790,"date":"2013-04-15T08:52:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T20:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=790"},"modified":"2013-04-15T10:59:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T22:59:12","slug":"please-leave-a-carefully-considered-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"Please leave a (carefully considered) comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=789\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-789\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-789\" alt=\"keyboard1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/keyboard1-300x272.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/keyboard1-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/keyboard1.jpg 372w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>After 15 or 20 minutes spent reading the comments under the op-ed pieces in my local online newspapers I am surprised that there are any unsolved problems left in the world.<\/p>\n<p>There are just so many experts out there.\u00a0 And each is ready and willing to give us the benefit of their, umm, wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>Forget all of the carefully researched, considered, and crafted arguments of the paid (or sometimes unpaid) hacks.\u00a0 The dash-it-off readers have the <i>real<\/i> answers.\u00a0 They don\u2019t need research.\u00a0 They don\u2019t need time for careful consideration.\u00a0 And they certainly don\u2019t need time to craft their responses.\u00a0 (Hey, what\u2019s the problem with a bit of approximate spelling and innovative grammar? \u00a0It\u2019s the Internet, for goodness sake!\u00a0 Time is of the essence.\u00a0 Get with the programme.)<\/p>\n<p>Of course a sprinkling of the op-ed authors have an agenda. \u00a0Well, many of them do. \u00a0I guess that\u2019s why many of them took to their keyboards in the first place.\u00a0 And some can be pretty selective in their use of \u2018facts\u2019.\u00a0 But even an occasional reader must quickly grasp that Heather is left leaning and Gus has rightist tendencies. \u00a0And responding to every proposal or suggestion with a general tirade against whichever politician or political party you didn\u2019t vote for takes the argument nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>If you feel the urge to join the commentariat, to add your opinion, please do.\u00a0 But please think.\u00a0 Please focus.\u00a0 And please make an effort to use language that encourages a rational consideration of your ideas.\u00a0 After all, if you are just going to have a mad, semi-literate rant, why should anyone bother to consider your point of view seriously?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 15 or 20 minutes spent reading the comments under the op-ed pieces in my local online newspapers I am surprised that there are any unsolved problems left in the world. There are just so many experts out there.\u00a0 And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=790\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}