{"id":1227,"date":"2009-11-01T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/01\/be-civil-be-opinionated-be-smart\/"},"modified":"2009-11-01T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T16:04:00","slug":"be-civil-be-opinionated-be-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/01\/be-civil-be-opinionated-be-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"Be civil, be opinionated, be smart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog has attracted a lot of attention from readers\/posters from outside the North Country.  All are welcome. <\/p>\n<p>We love hearing debate and argument &#8212; even passionate ones. <\/p>\n<p>But this is a small-town, rural area.  The people who read this blog are neighbors and friends, even when we disagree about politics. <\/p>\n<p>So, to one and all:  keep it civil.  Make arguments.  It&#8217;s not enough to drop left- or right-wing talking points. <\/p>\n<p>Think out loud, yes.  But think.  And treat the other people who come here with respect, whatever their political stripe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog has attracted a lot of attention from readers\/posters from outside the North Country. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}