{"id":179808,"date":"2017-10-19T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/19\/this-may-be-the-worst-thing-that-i-have-ever-said\/"},"modified":"2017-10-19T18:14:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T23:14:00","slug":"this-may-be-the-worst-thing-that-i-have-ever-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/19\/this-may-be-the-worst-thing-that-i-have-ever-said\/","title":{"rendered":"This May Be the Worst Thing That I Have Ever Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We just had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/nation-world\/sns-bc-us--office-park-shooting-20171018-story.html\">workplace shooting in Maryland and Delaware yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>3 dead and 6 wounded.  Just another day at the office.<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I were discussing this as I was getting ready to go to work, and I said, &#8220;My advice is always to shoot the boss, not your co-workers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sharon,<sup>*<\/sup> ever the optimist, asked a very wise question, &#8220;How about not shooting anyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Without thinking, I replied:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b><span style=\"font-size: 150%; font-variant: small-caps;\">This is America, that&#8217;s not an option. <\/span><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That was literally the first thought in my head, like some kind of like a Rorschach test.<\/p>\n<p>That may have been the worst thing that I have ever said in my entire life.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if it reflects poorly on me, on our society, on my understanding of our society, or the universe.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Love of my life, light of the  cosmos, <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;\">she  who must be obeyed<\/span>, my wife.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just had a workplace shooting in Maryland and Delaware yesterday. 3 dead and 6 wounded. Just another day at the office. My wife and I were discussing this as I was getting ready to go to work, and I said, &#8220;My advice is always to shoot the boss, not your co-workers.&#8221; Sharon,* ever the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[423,435,364,422,504,582],"class_list":["post-179808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-40yrs","tag-crimes","tag-evil","tag-family","tag-philosophy","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}