{"id":285,"date":"2009-07-14T18:23:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T22:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=285"},"modified":"2009-07-14T18:23:19","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T22:23:19","slug":"empathy-republican-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"Empathy Republican Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It certainly explained a lot to me when Republicans told the world that empathy for one person necessarily means prejudice toward another.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;d always thought empathy simply meant the ability to understand the feelings of another, no matter who they were.\u00c2\u00a0 So that a judge, for example, might find it comes in handy to understand the feelings of the working poor, corporate sleeze balls, the cop on the beat, crack dealers, lying vice-presidents\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<em>all<\/em> sorts of folks.\u00c2\u00a0 All the better to understand and weigh evidence if you have a sense of where people are coming from, even people who wouldn&#8217;t know empathy if it bit &#8217;em on the ass.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t realize Republicans can&#8217;t do empathy in stereo, much less in surround sound.\u00c2\u00a0 Now I get it, guys.\u00c2\u00a0 Thanks for clearing that up.\u00c2\u00a0 It explains a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It certainly explained a lot to me when Republicans told the world that empathy for one person necessarily means prejudice toward another.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;d always thought empathy simply meant the ability to understand the feelings of another, no matter who they &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=285\">Continue reading <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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}