{"id":893,"date":"2003-02-13T19:04:39","date_gmt":"2003-02-14T00:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2003\/02\/13\/893.html"},"modified":"2003-02-13T19:04:39","modified_gmt":"2003-02-14T00:04:39","slug":"things-i-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2003\/02\/13\/things-i-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eliewieselfoundation.org\/\">Elie Wiesel<\/a>, in a recent lecture, said that he had so much difficulty defining what he was for, that he decided to start with what he was against. His list (from my notes): ignorance, hunger, racism, hatred, comparisons, humiliation, silence, neutrality, and indifference. It&#8217;s a hell of a list. I&#8217;ll take away comparisons (he defined the word oddly, in my arrogant opinion, and his opposition seemed conditional), and add arrogance, ugliness and extortion for starters.\n<p>\nOf course, he&#8217;s right that it&#8217;s much easier to be against than to be for; I undoubtedly write more hatchet jobs than puff pieces. Furthermore, anytime it&#8217;s difficult to define your terms, it&#8217;s a good clue that it&#8217;s important to try. I&#8217;m for variety, kindness, rigor, compassion, empathy, courage, and forethought, among other things. Also Pringles.\n<p>\nThank you,<br>\n-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Elie Wiesel, in a recent lecture, said that he had so much difficulty defining what he was for, that he decided to start with what he was against. His list (from my notes): ignorance, hunger, racism, hatred, comparisons, humiliation,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}