{"id":31230,"date":"2018-07-23T13:11:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T13:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31230"},"modified":"2018-07-23T13:11:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T13:11:19","slug":"listen-up-your-grandparents-were-right-all-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31230","title":{"rendered":"Listen up: Your grandparents were right all along"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Your grandparents — and, yes, mine too — were visionaries. They were way ahead of their time.<\/p>\n

They warned us, “If you can’t say something nice to someone, then keep it to yourself” … or words to that effect.<\/p>\n

They didn’t anticipate the advent of cell phones or the myriad other recording devices that have proliferated our society. But, man, they nailed it!<\/p>\n

Just look at the Uber driver who has been caught recording passengers without their knowledge. Then you had the idiot at the Chicago Cubs baseball game who took a ball from a youngster after one of the Cubs players had tossed the ball to the little boy; yes, the ballpark incident was captured by TV, but you get the point.<\/p>\n

This all happened over the weekend.<\/p>\n

There have been instances of people cussing others out. Road rage incidents are recorded for posterity by motorists who watch them unfold in real time.<\/p>\n

I’ve lamented before that the ubiquitous nature of these devices should make us all a lot more reticent when confronted with potential problems.<\/p>\n

Everyone, or so it seems, has a camera these days. You say something unkind or crude, it gets recorded. You erupt in a spasm of anger, or possibly, violence — that, too, becomes part of the “public domain.” You mistreat someone, get ready for the “viral” distribution of that action all across the planet.<\/p>\n

When will we ever learn? When will we heed the advice given to us years ago by men and women — Grandpa and Grandma — who were way ahead of their time?<\/p>\n\n

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Your grandparents — and, yes, mine too — were visionaries. They were way ahead of their time. They warned us, “If you can’t say something nice to someone, then keep it to yourself” … or words to that effect. They didn’t anticipate the advent of cell phones or the myriad other recording devices that have … Continue reading Listen up: Your grandparents were right all along<\/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":[10],"tags":[811,899,4300],"class_list":["post-31230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-cameras","tag-cellphones","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31230","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=31230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31232,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31230\/revisions\/31232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}