{"id":3018,"date":"2022-04-20T02:27:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T02:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3018"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:11","slug":"equation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3018","title":{"rendered":"EQUATION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Does anyone else have a fear of the following equation?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Our human propensity to <b>Believe<\/b> just about anything&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>+<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>The current hair-trigger on getting\u00a0<b>Offended<\/b>\u00a0(On behalf of ourselves AND on behalf of others) &#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>+<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>The <b>Internet <\/b>as a whole and <b>Social Media<\/b> in particular&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>+<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>America&#8217;s <b>Poverty <\/b>(Which is a poverty of <b>relationships<\/b>, not of material stuff)<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>=<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Impending cultural <b>Disintegration<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please tell me my fears are unfounded.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tell me the pendulum will swing back toward genuine conversations, rational disagreements, and grace-filled forgiveness.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does anyone else have a fear of the following equation? Our human propensity to Believe just about anything&#8230; + The current hair-trigger on getting\u00a0Offended\u00a0(On behalf of ourselves AND on behalf of others) &#8230; + The Internet as a whole and Social Media in particular&#8230; + America&#8217;s Poverty (Which is a poverty of relationships, not of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3019,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions\/3019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}