{"id":14962,"date":"2013-10-25T21:33:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T01:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14962"},"modified":"2013-10-26T10:25:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T14:25:01","slug":"why-we-cant-compromise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/10\/25\/why-we-cant-compromise\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Should Not Always Just Compromise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you were in this car wanting to get somewhere and had two opposing opinions on where to drive, would you think it reasonable to just compromise by splitting the difference between the two opinions?<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TwoLaneRoadCartoon1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14968\" alt=\"Compromise Example\" src=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TwoLaneRoadCartoon1.png\" width=\"95%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TwoLaneRoadCartoon1.png 1369w, https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TwoLaneRoadCartoon1-150x112.png 150w, https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TwoLaneRoadCartoon1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TwoLaneRoadCartoon1-1024x768.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1369px) 100vw, 1369px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>So why do the press and so many in the public think that two sides should always compromise, no matter what the two opposing sides want to do?<\/p>\n<p>Or do you think the Democrats should suggest driving in the ditch on the left so that compromise will get us to a reasonable position?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were in this car wanting to get somewhere and had two opposing opinions on where to drive, would you think it reasonable to just compromise by splitting the difference between the two opinions? So why do the press and so many in the public think that two sides should always compromise, no matter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14962"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14971,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14962\/revisions\/14971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}