{"id":1834,"date":"2009-01-05T11:27:26","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T16:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2009-01-04T22:33:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T03:33:36","slug":"i-secretly-want-to-punch-slow-walking-people-in-the-back-of-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1834","title":{"rendered":"I Secretly Want to Punch Slow Walking People in the Back of the Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/comment\/4046188\/A-new-years-resolution-Could-we-be-a-little-more-polite-please.html\">Matthew Deacon in the <em>Telegraph<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A long queue at the cash machine, being kept on hold when telephoning the    bank, waiting more than 10 seconds to cross a busy road \u2013 it&#8217;s almost a    reflex, these days, to take such trifles personally. A phenomenon of the    Nineties was road rage. Today, I&#8217;m sure that more and more of us feel    pavement rage. There are too many people and they&#8217;re in our way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>More than a million members of Facebook have joined a group on the website,    called &#8220;I Secretly Want to Punch Slow Walking People in the Back of the    Head&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although I have not joined that group on Facebook, I am already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=2208419959\">a member in spirit<\/a>. I was so excited over finding out that others shared my &#8220;pavement rage&#8221; that it entirely undermined the point of Deacon&#8217;s piece. Giving voice to a thought like &#8220;I Secretly Want to Punch Slow Walking People in the Back of the    Head&#8221; while imploring people to take a different message seems akin to describing in pornographic detail what a sex addict should not do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Deacon in the Telegraph: A long queue at the cash machine, being kept on hold when telephoning the bank, waiting more than 10 seconds to cross a busy road \u2013 it&#8217;s almost a reflex, these days, to take such trifles personally. A phenomenon of the Nineties was road rage. Today, I&#8217;m sure that more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26],"tags":[1207,1208,751],"class_list":["post-1834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-life","tag-matthew-deacon","tag-pavement-rage","tag-telegraph"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-tA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1835,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions\/1835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}