{"id":1230,"date":"2007-07-04T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2007-07-04T11:56:47","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T16:56:47","slug":"much-ado-about-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1230","title":{"rendered":"Much Ado About Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now I feel just awful for getting worked up about Striker.  The young man has posted a full retraction and an apology <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Wb3hXvS7qm0\">here<\/a>.  A video apology.  He did this of his own volition.<\/p>\n<p>He apologized publicly, so I&#8217;m going to do the same.  Striker:  <em>I&#8217;m sorry I called you a moron.  And an idiot.  That was petty of me.  I could (and should) have handled this without childish name-calling.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Striker really is a teenager.  When I saw him I thought of a lot of the blunders <em>I<\/em> made as a teenager.  Except, when I made my mistakes I made them in front of dozens of peers, not hundreds (thousands?) of strangers on the internet.  When I wrote my initial post, I had assumed &#8220;this guy&#8221; was an adult, and judged his actions as I would a grown man.  (I also judged his grammer the same way, which wasn&#8217;t fair either.  I would cringe if the stuff I wrote at 16 was still around today.)  <\/p>\n<p>This is way too much angst for a situation where nothing bad happened and nobody got hurt.  Striker also humbled me with the video apology:  At 16, I never would have done that on my own.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve removed the link to his profile. Please, if anyone is still giving him a hard time, I&#8217;m begging you: let the guy alone.  <\/p>\n<p>Also: Comments closed.  I really would like to let this rest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now I feel just awful for getting worked up about Striker. The young man has posted a full retraction and an apology here. A video apology. He did this of his own volition. He apologized publicly, so I&#8217;m going to do the same. Striker: I&#8217;m sorry I called you a moron. And an idiot. That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}