{"id":20129,"date":"2017-03-03T21:21:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T21:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20129"},"modified":"2017-03-03T21:21:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T21:21:47","slug":"twitter-becomes-a-disgusting-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20129","title":{"rendered":"Twitter becomes a disgusting weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AAnEOXk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20130\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AAnEOXk-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AAnEOXk-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AAnEOXk.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/chicago-man-terminated-for-tweet-about-widow-of-navy-seal-killed-in-yemen\/ar-AAnJ3Zf?li=BBmkt5R&amp;ocid=spartandhp\">This is one of the things <\/a>I hate about Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>It can be used for\u00a0disgraceful purposes, such as what a Chicago man did the other day. Fortunately, it cost him his job.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Grilo went on Twitter to make a disgusting commentary on the widow of a Navy SEAL who (a) had been killed in combat and (b) had been invited to hear Donald Trump&#8217;s speech to a joint session of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The president called attention to Carryn Owens, wife of slain SEAL William &#8220;Ryan&#8221; Owens. She stood and cried while the audience cheered for her. I guess Grilo didn&#8217;t like it. So he posted something utterly distasteful about what he had witnessed on television. He tweeted: &#8220;Sorry Owens&#8217; wife, you&#8217;re not helping yourself or your husband&#8217;s memory by standing there and clapping like an idiot. Trump just used you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the bad news. The <em>good<\/em> news &#8212; from my standpoint &#8212; is that the financial firm for which he was set to start work dismissed him.<\/p>\n<p>I hate a lot of things about Twitter &#8230; although <em>I do use it myself<\/em>. I have fired off more than 14,600 tweets over the years, but I have sought to\u00a0avoid the kind of personal insults that we too often read on this social medium.<\/p>\n<p>We all get 140 characters to say whatever it is we want to say. I try to be more discreet than the idiocy fired\u00a0into cyberspace by the likes of Daniel Grilo.<\/p>\n<p>Grilo did apologize to Mrs. Owens and to the president\u00a0in subsequent tweets. I&#8217;m sorry to inform you, dude, the damage was done and as an old friend once told me, &#8220;You cannot <em>unhonk<\/em> a horn.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the things I hate about Twitter. It can be used for\u00a0disgraceful purposes, such as what a Chicago man did the other day. Fortunately, it cost him his job. Daniel Grilo went on Twitter to make a disgusting commentary on the widow of a Navy SEAL who (a) had been killed in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20129\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twitter becomes a disgusting weapon<\/span> <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1424,3226,4300,4932],"class_list":["post-20129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-navy-seals","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20132,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20129\/revisions\/20132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}