{"id":537,"date":"2006-06-28T20:49:12","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T00:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=537"},"modified":"2006-07-21T00:19:38","modified_gmt":"2006-07-21T04:19:38","slug":"lets-be-clear-about-something-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=537","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s be clear about something here&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s post was on guerilla marketing. No, really, it was &#8212; go back and check it to make sure.<\/p>\n<p>Someone named &#8220;David&#8221; wrote the following as a comment to that post on marketing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hey, just found your blog. Wondering why you are a unitarian when many of your stances directly contradict the bible that you claim to base most of your teachings and doctrine on?<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not looking for an arguement, but more want to understand your reasoning and present to you why I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t agree&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What on earth does that comment have to do with the post? I was talking about marketing, not about the Bible. I was talking about how to get people to notice your church, not about what it means to be a Unitarian Universalist.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plain common courtesy to write comments that show you have at least read the post (and\/or earlier comments on the post). Conversely, it&#8217;s just plain rude to try to further your own agenda by posting comments that have nothing to do with the related post.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, it&#8217;s clear from &#8220;David&#8217;s&#8221; remarks that he hasn&#8217;t even read <em>anything<\/em> on this blog &#8212; which makes his rudeness even more pronounced.<\/p>\n<p>Got that, &#8220;David&#8221;? Enough said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s post was on guerilla marketing. No, really, it was &#8212; go back and check it to make sure. Someone named &#8220;David&#8221; wrote the following as a comment to that post on marketing: Hey, just found your blog. Wondering why you are a unitarian when many of your stances directly contradict the bible that you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housekeeping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}