{"id":7039,"date":"2012-04-20T11:45:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T15:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2012\/04\/20\/people-dont-always-suck\/"},"modified":"2012-04-20T11:45:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T15:45:47","slug":"people-dont-always-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/04\/20\/people-dont-always-suck\/","title":{"rendered":"People Don’t Always Suck"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading Ethan Zuckerman’s recap<\/a> of the awful things people said to Xeni Jardin during a recent “twttier bomb” fiasco, it would be very easy to slide into “People suck” mode. Particularly since a large part of my day yesterday was spent in New York traffic. So here’s a quick antidote, also from yesterday:<\/p>\n

When I got back here yesterday evening, after driving 500-ish miles in the last two days, and not getting a whole lot of sleep, I was pretty fried. So much so that on the way to pick the kids up from day care, I lost my phone. Apparently, I put it on top of the car when I got in, and it fell off when I made the turn into the JCC.<\/p>\n

How do I know this? Because a total stranger spotted it lying on the double yellow line on a fairly major street, while he was on his way to a lacrosse practice, and stopped to pick it up. He wasn’t exactly tech-savvy, but did figure out my email address, which he passed on to his son, who sent me a note. He also called the last couple of people on my recent calls list, to track me down (to the amusement of my parents, as my mother was one of those). I called him as soon as I got the email, and he stopped by the house to return the phone. Which is fine, other than some scuffing of the rugged case.<\/p>\n

So, you know, while a certain subset of people on the Internet certainly do suck, it’s good to be reminded that there are a lot of good people out there, too. Thanks to one of them, I don’t have to spend the day getting a new phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Ethan Zuckerman’s recap of the awful things people said to Xeni Jardin during a recent “twttier bomb” fiasco, it would be very easy to slide into “People suck” mode. Particularly since a large part of my day yesterday was spent in New York traffic. So here’s a quick antidote, also from yesterday: When I… Continue reading People Don’t Always Suck<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}