{"id":6026,"date":"2013-09-25T16:40:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T21:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=6026"},"modified":"2013-09-25T16:40:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T21:40:03","slug":"the-kid-with-the-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=6026","title":{"rendered":"The kid with the smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>wandering down the road while cars swerve to avoid him is the very definition of lack of situational awareness. I would have taken a picture but I was one of the cars avoiding mowing him down as he texted. I don&#8217;t know if he thought he was on the sidewalk or just didn&#8217;t care who he inconvenienced.<\/p>\n<p>The most of the people living in this country are just as politically situationally unaware. They have no idea that they&#8217;re walking in the middle of the road or that they are about to be laminated to the pavement by a bus, so long as they can load the next picture of an angry cat making noises that sound like human speech. <\/p>\n<p>Tis is why the most ignorant and disingenuous thing I can think of is to say &#8220;Mind your own business&#8221;  We&#8217;re loaded with people minding their own business, and not doing a damned thing to pay attention to the shitstorm that is brewing. I am also amazed by the tone deafness of that statement- I mean, really? I should mind my own business? How about you following your own stupid fucking advice, asshole?<\/p>\n<p>The business of civilization is all our business. While we wander down the road texting the people who are taking care of business are getting ready to mow us down. Lift your head up, moron. Look around. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wandering down the road while cars swerve to avoid him is the very definition of lack of situational awareness. I would have taken a picture but I was one of the cars avoiding mowing him down as he texted. I don&#8217;t know if he thought he was on the sidewalk or just didn&#8217;t care who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}