{"id":656,"date":"2019-01-29T17:37:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T22:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/?p=656"},"modified":"2021-04-19T16:01:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T20:01:04","slug":"kill-them-with-kindness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/kill-them-with-kindness-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kill Them With Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a sweet peacemaking story:\u00a0A Republican sent a nasty tweet to an actor-comedian who had posted comments critical of President Trump. You&#8217;d expect the comedian to retort in kind, and for the downward spiral to continue, right? Especially because these men don&#8217;t know one another. But the comedian,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/2019\/01\/25\/patton-oswalt-got-into-twitter-war-with-trump-supporter-then-helped-pay-his-medical-bills\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.0ef2b9c8334a\">Patton Oswalt, did the unexpected.<\/a> Apparently he decided to research his opponent before replying, and discovered that the Republican, a man named Michael Beatty, had just gotten out of the hospital after being in a coma from his diabetes, and needed help with his medical bills. So Mr. Oswalt, instead of making a sassy reply, invited his followers to contribute to Mr. Beatty&#8217;s GoFundMe page &#8212; as Mr. Oswalt himself had just done.<\/p>\n<p>A beautiful example of turning the other cheek and going the extra mile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a sweet peacemaking story:\u00a0A Republican sent a nasty tweet to an actor-comedian who had posted comments critical of President Trump. You&#8217;d expect the comedian to retort in kind, and for the downward spiral to continue, right? Especially because these men don&#8217;t know one another. But the comedian,\u00a0Patton Oswalt, did the unexpected. Apparently he decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peacemaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}