{"id":11596,"date":"2012-05-02T19:51:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T11:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=11596"},"modified":"2012-05-02T19:51:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T11:51:55","slug":"on-whining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2012\/05\/on-whining\/","title":{"rendered":"On Whining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11597\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/15.jpg?resize=205%2C245\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/15.jpg?w=205&amp;ssl=1 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/15.jpg?resize=80%2C96&amp;ssl=1 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some counterintuitive thought&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There are whiners with genuine complaints. And there are genuine whiners who complain about those whiners, as if their complaints aren&#8217;t valid. Who is worse?<\/p>\n<p>(Of course, there are those who really over-whine, whose complaints are really overboard.)\u00a0Of course, it&#8217;s better to just improve the state of things &#8211; but this is usually possible only when there is enough mass-whining to pressurise those in power, who have become complacent to the suffering of the whining ones. Beyond mere complaints, it&#8217;s best to come up with genuine workable solutions too. When those in power have become too complacent, what else can you do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some counterintuitive thought&#8230; There are whiners with genuine complaints. And there are genuine whiners who complain about those whiners,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-11596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-suffering","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}