{"id":1268,"date":"2007-08-08T10:09:36","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T15:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2007-10-07T06:18:40","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T11:18:40","slug":"insert-smiley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1268","title":{"rendered":"Insert Smiley"},"content":{"rendered":"

In regards to yesterday’s post wherein I “defended” those “lazy Americans”<\/a>. A couple of people jumped in<\/a> and reacted as though I really was<\/em> boiling with rage. The post was intended with a light-hearted tone. I thought that came through pretty clearly in the original post, but in case it didn’t: I wasn’t upset in the least, and I’m still not. I wasn’t REALLY offended by anything. I saw a couple of comments along the lines of “lazy Americans” and I had some fun with them. <\/p>\n

(Actually, now that I’m re-reading it, I think the second to last sentence – the one in italics – does<\/strong> sound pissed off. My bad. I’m not really upset with anyone, not even the people who DID imply the “Lazy Americans” stuff. Really, it was a fun discussion about socks.)<\/p>\n

This is another reason I’d like to get back to a small-audience blog. I’m just not very good at big-audience stuff. I like writing rants. I probably like writing them more than anything else. But sometimes I mess up, or people missunderstand the joke or miss the humor entirely, and with a big audience this causes more angst and hurt feelings. I’m not going to pepper my rants with smileys or add a “I’m just having fun with you” disclaimer at the end. I’d rather just not post them at all.<\/p>\n

Although, maybe this will be self-balancing: If I piss off enough people my audience will dwindle down to a size I can handle. <\/p>\n

Sigh.<\/p>\n

Damn foreigners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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