{"id":2837,"date":"2010-04-08T08:51:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T16:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2010-04-08T08:52:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T16:52:11","slug":"flame-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/flame-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Flame not!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2838\" title=\"Donald Trump\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/donald_trump-300x300-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>S&amp;G<\/em> readers are\u00a0 a polite and thoughtful bunch of folks, ones from whom I&#8217;ve learnt a great deal over the years. They police themselves so well that I&#8217;ve almost never, ever had to articulate <strong>the unspoken rules of this forum<\/strong>. However, that also means that the occasional newcomer crosses the line and has to get a stern (but private) e-mail about an unknowing infraction of an unwritten rule. So, to clarify the matter &#8212; and for future reference &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>While you can say what you like about me (up to but not including the use of &#8220;hate speech&#8221;), <strong>other posters are off-limits<\/strong>. If you have issue with what Mr. X or Ms. Z has to say, please do so without resorting to pejorative or abusive verbiage. A well-argued point is far more resonant than &#8220;Yer mama wears army boots!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>One more thing<\/strong>: NO ALL_CAPS [<em>sic<\/em>] POSTING! If you have to yell to make your point, it probably wasn&#8217;t worth making in the first place &#8230; or else your &#8220;Caps Lock&#8221; key is stuck and seriously in need of repair.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you. We now return to our regularly scheduled fun and frolic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S&amp;G readers are\u00a0 a polite and thoughtful bunch of folks, ones from whom I&#8217;ve learnt a great deal over the years. They police themselves so well that I&#8217;ve almost never, ever had to articulate the unspoken rules of this forum. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/flame-not\/\">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":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2840,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions\/2840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}