{"id":536,"date":"2010-06-24T14:28:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T18:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=536"},"modified":"2010-06-24T14:51:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T18:51:34","slug":"when-did-anger-become-a-virtue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=536","title":{"rendered":"When did anger become a virtue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;this just popped into my head&#8230;no it didn&#8217;t hurt&#8230;when did anger and the expression of it become such a virtue? To listen to those on the right, Obama is not fit to be president because he acts too cool in times of crisis. You have got to be kidding me again&#8230;when I was growing up it was a virtue to not get upset at every little thing&#8230;to act like a man (or woman) when things went wrong and to think, then take action. There is even a well-know phrase, &#8220;calm under fire&#8221; that was one of the highest compliments that you could give someone. What went wrong? I think the right is confusing the sound and fury that has come to define their brand of politics with accomplishment&#8230;and being an adult. Fox News is even using the phrase &#8220;No Drama Obama&#8221; as another slur&#8230;what would they have him do? Run around and scream?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just another instance of the right saying whatever they can, no matter how true to try to bring the Obama administration down by any means&#8230;sounds like terrorism to me&#8230;but as always, I support their right to say it.<\/p>\n<p>Keith, if you decide to steal this one, too..you owe me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;this just popped into my head&#8230;no it didn&#8217;t hurt&#8230;when did anger and the expression of it become such a virtue? To listen to those on the right, Obama is not fit to be president because he acts too cool in times of crisis. You have got to be kidding me again&#8230;when I was growing up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=536\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When did anger become a virtue?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[138,26,34],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-anger","tag-obama","tag-right-wing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}