{"id":1820,"date":"2020-02-23T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2020-02-23T17:49:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T00:49:43","slug":"let-it-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1820","title":{"rendered":"Let it go!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A recurring theme in the <strong><em>Ewellogy<\/em><\/strong> is what my son Mark calls America&#8217;s new indoor sport: <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1411\">recreational outrage<\/a>. Here&#8217;s the one I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1075\">Uninformed Outrage<\/a>, and this blog on <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=411\">Piling On<\/a> is where Mark introduced us to the term <em>recreational outrage<\/em> in a comment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2020\/02\/23\">Pearls Before Swine<\/a> captured the phenomenon beautifully and even included a cure. Rat tells the <em>Offendedistas<\/em> who take offense at everything someone else says and then destroys you for it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>What if we just go on with our lives like we used to, leaving creative people free to create and you free to ignore it?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rat is advising us all to practice a <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=371\">holy indifference<\/a> as well as realize that my outrage doesn&#8217;t fix anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this:  Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. (James 1.19, 20, NIV) <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>So then  each of us shall give account of himself to God. (Romans 14.12, NKJV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recurring theme in the Ewellogy is what my son Mark calls America&#8217;s new indoor sport: recreational outrage. Here&#8217;s the one I wrote about Uninformed Outrage, and this blog on Piling On is where Mark introduced us to the term recreational outrage in a comment. Today, Pearls Before Swine captured the phenomenon beautifully and even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1820\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let it go!<\/span> <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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-tm","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions\/1828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}