{"id":22071,"date":"2017-06-01T01:25:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T01:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22071"},"modified":"2017-06-01T01:25:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T01:25:25","slug":"arguments-produce-out-of-body-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22071","title":{"rendered":"Arguments produce ‘out-of-body experience’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am going to admit to having something akin to an out-of-body experience, thanks to this blog.<\/p>\n

High Plains Blogger posts get distributed along several social media platforms. Twitter and Facebook are the most reliable of them.
\nI write these posts, then they are shared automatically through these and other social media.<\/p>\n

What happens next produces the out-of-body feeling.<\/p>\n

I have quite a few Facebook “friends.” Many of them are actual friends or, to be more precise, personal acquaintances with whom I have good relations. Some of them are close friends, some are members of my family. My longest-tenured friend<\/em> goes back with me to the seventh grade in junior high school. Still others are just folks who are hooked up on Facebook with people I might know.<\/p>\n

It’s a big networking deal, you know?<\/p>\n

Quite often I will post something on Facebook that draws a sharp response. Someone then will read that response and then fire back at the individual who wrote the initial reaction.\u00a0Person No. 1 fires back at No. 2. Then the back-and-forth commences.<\/p>\n

I stay away from the fray most of the time. I will decline to say I stay “above” it all, because that sounds too self-serving.<\/p>\n

I do enjoy the repartee, although I regret that at times the jousting gets too personal. Some folks hurl insults at each other. Even a few of them resort to profanity, which I personally dislike intensely. I don’t like cursing in public, although I’ll drop an occasional “hell” or “damn” in my blog.<\/p>\n

The jousting is quite fun to watch. My own philosophy is that I like putting the thoughts out there … and then watching the fur and the fecal matter fly. I don’t have the stomach, the perseverance — or the time — to participate in long-running contests to see who gets the last word.<\/p>\n

I leave all of that to others … most of the time.<\/em><\/p>\n

Have at it, dear reader.<\/p>\n\n

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I am going to admit to having something akin to an out-of-body experience, thanks to this blog. High Plains Blogger posts get distributed along several social media platforms. Twitter and Facebook are the most reliable of them. I write these posts, then they are shared automatically through these and other social media. What happens next … Continue reading Arguments produce ‘out-of-body experience’<\/span> →<\/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":[9,10],"tags":[1676,2122,4300,4932],"class_list":["post-22071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-media-news","tag-facebook","tag-high-plains-blogger","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22071","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=22071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22076,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22071\/revisions\/22076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}