{"id":98,"date":"2007-05-04T11:01:59","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T16:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/04\/it%e2%80%99s-not-fair-it-never-is\/"},"modified":"2007-05-04T11:01:59","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T16:01:59","slug":"its-not-fair-it-never-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Not Fair! It Never Is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"GRBJ0597.gif\" alt=\"GRBJ0597.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/images\/grbj\/GRBJ0597.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Originally published in the <em>Grand Rapids Business Journal<\/em>, April 23, 2007<\/p>\n<p>Generally when somebody says, &#8220;it&#8217;s not fair!&#8221; what they really mean is &#8220;whatever just transpired did not meet my expectations, fell short of my ideals, and generally turned out counter to how I would have liked it to have turned out. I was wronged somehow and don&#8217;t have the words or the interest at the moment to identify the actual issue for a sensible discussion. Or maybe I saw a truth that I didn&#8217;t want to see and I&#8217;m trying to deflect attention. In any case, as a self-proclaimed arbiter of fairness, I am now free to become argumentative and draw sweeping, illogical analogies and dare you to defy them. I have claimed the high ground. I am right; you are wrong. I am rubber; you are glue &#8212; whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At least, that&#8217;s typically what I mean when I say it.<\/p>\n<p>Was that too wordy?&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Grand Rapids Business Journal, April 23, 2007 Generally when somebody says, &#8220;it&#8217;s not fair!&#8221; what they really mean is &#8220;whatever just transpired did not meet my expectations, fell short of my ideals, and generally turned out counter to how I would have liked it to have turned out. I was wronged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-rapids-business-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}