{"id":3302,"date":"2021-01-25T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T06:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3302"},"modified":"2020-12-22T08:10:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T13:10:26","slug":"the-common-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2021\/01\/the-common-person\/","title":{"rendered":"The Common Person"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Thoughts about all those folks out there who seem to be doing something that the experts don&#8217;t like.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1980\u2014it was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away when I heard a woman telling foreign dignitaries about the common person in America. I didn&#8217;t approach her and hit her with a two-by-four\u2014mostly because I didn\u2019t have a two-by-four handy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, &#8220;The common person gets their news from Facebook. Can you imagine the ignorance?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The person making that statement used to be paid to write for a newspaper or the web version of the newspaper. The common person now talks to trusted friends instead of reading this former \u201cjournalist\u201d who shot himself in the foot by writing nothing but editorials instead of being a journalist. Now this former journalist is unemployed and is lashing out at \u201cthe common person.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Never underestimate \u201cthe common person.\u201d The adjective \u201ccommon\u201d means there is a lot of these folks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This isn\u2019t yet another praise of \u201cthe silent majority\u201d or populism or something. Just a reminder that there are plenty of persons \u201cout there\u201d (they must be out there because if they were in here some of us wouldn\u2019t be worried about them) who don\u2019t see things the same way we or me or someone else sees them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those folks out there are not ignorant. They simply disagree with some other folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Thoughts about all those folks out there who seem to be doing something that the experts don&#8217;t like. 1980\u2014it was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away when I heard a woman telling foreign dignitaries about the common person in America. I didn&#8217;t approach her and hit her with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[386,353,117,6,10,257],"tags":[387,355,229,129,133,258],"class_list":["post-3302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appearances","category-fairy-tales","category-integrity","category-observation","category-people","category-respect","tag-appearances","tag-fairy-tales","tag-integrity","tag-observation","tag-people","tag-respect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3303,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions\/3303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}