{"id":8156,"date":"2009-02-05T16:49:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T00:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8156"},"modified":"2009-02-05T16:49:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T00:49:52","slug":"how-do-you-deal-with-friends-who-want-to-demean-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8156","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Deal With Friends Who Want To Demean You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like Dennis Prager, I&#8217;ve dedicated my life to uplifting the human condition.<\/p>\n<p>I pattern my behavior on tne highest ideals of Western Civilization in general and the Torah in particular.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, I have people in my life who try to take me down from my cross (I climb up there every day to try to expiate the world&#8217;s sins).<\/p>\n<p>For instance, at 4 pm, my friend and employer called.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Hello,&quot; I said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Hello cocksucker,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday when I picked up the phone, he called me &quot;scumbag.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>On other days, he calls me &quot;nigger.&quot; He says I have an African-American work ethic.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how to respond. I make about $500 a month from assisting this gentleman in a few of his more legitimate endeavors.<\/p>\n<p>All I know is &#8212; I don&#8217;t want to go back to dancing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Dennis Prager, I&#8217;ve dedicated my life to uplifting the human condition. I pattern my behavior on tne highest ideals of Western Civilization in general and the Torah in particular. Despite this, I have people in my life who try &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8156\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[13113,29761,13114,29981,16080],"class_list":["post-8156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-american-work-ethic","tag-dennis-prager","tag-nigger","tag-torah","tag-western-civilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8157,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156\/revisions\/8157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}