{"id":27238,"date":"2025-02-07T20:28:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T01:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27238"},"modified":"2025-02-07T20:28:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T01:28:53","slug":"the-best-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27238","title":{"rendered":"The best response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was excited yesterday to realize that it was Rick Astley&#8217;s birthday. So I jumped at the chance to celebrate his special day on this blog in the most appropriate way.<\/p>\n<p>I realize that some readers might not have appreciated the gesture, or the way that it may have sort of snuck up on them.<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps the best response in such situations is exactly how you <i>shouldn&#8217;t<\/i> respond when creepy authoritarians are trying to destroy your democracy from within.<\/p>\n<p>Just roll with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was excited yesterday to realize that it was Rick Astley&#8217;s birthday. So I jumped at the chance to celebrate his special day on this blog in the most appropriate way. I realize that some readers might not have appreciated the gesture, or the way that it may have sort of snuck up on them. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27238\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The best response&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27238"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27239,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27238\/revisions\/27239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}