{"id":645,"date":"2015-01-26T11:41:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T20:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/?p=645"},"modified":"2015-01-26T12:24:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T21:24:47","slug":"just-dont-talk-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Just don&#8217;t talk politics&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Just don&#8217;t talk politics&#8221; &#8212; I heard this over the weekend and it hit home how much of a truth it is for me.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny to me how many hobbies I have where I meet so many wonderful people I would not have meet elsewhere. So many people I have become great friends with, that I would not have meet anywhere else outside of the hobbies since our social circles just don&#8217;t intersect because of difference politics, lifestyle choices or spiritual beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you are reading this, from your friendly nearly vegan, gun toting, belly dancing, yoga teaching, agnostic, sci-fiction &amp; costuming loving, moderate left-leaning liberal, crazy cat\/ferret\/snake lady, thank you for your friendship. I think my life is so much richer for having such a variety of personalities and people around me!<\/p>\n<p>What I find very, very interesting is that more frequently than not, I find I get along with people of opposing belief systems (politics especially) better than those that self identify the same way I do.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s weird! But so is life and that is why I find it all so interesting : )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Just don&#8217;t talk politics&#8221; &#8212; I heard this over the weekend and it hit home how much of a truth it is for me. It&#8217;s funny to me how many hobbies I have where I meet so many wonderful people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/?p=645\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}