{"id":9969,"date":"2011-07-19T00:53:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T00:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/07\/19\/pulling-in-to-stfu-station\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T00:53:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T00:53:17","slug":"pulling-in-to-stfu-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/19\/pulling-in-to-stfu-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulling in to STFU Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I push you.<\/p>\n<p>Then, you push me.<\/p>\n<p>Then, I push you.<\/p>\n<p>Then, you push me.<\/p>\n<p>Then, I push you.<\/p>\n<p>Then, you push me.<\/p>\n<p>And I go &#8220;Hey, no pushing!  Unfair!!!!&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nOr perhaps it goes like this, a little more complicated:<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca says something<\/p>\n<p>Stef says something<\/p>\n<p>PZ says something<\/p>\n<p>A buncha people say something<\/p>\n<p>Richard says something<\/p>\n<p>A buncha people say something<\/p>\n<p>And at any point in there, depending on which thing was said by which person, you yell &#8220;Hey, stop all the argument, we&#8217;re done now!!! <em>This<\/em> has gone on <em>too long<\/em>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like a New York subway.  You get on the subway near the beginning, and that train stops at dozens of locations, each one different from the others. If you like boats, bagels, theater, a walk in the park, high-end shopping, the automat, whatever&#8230; its all there somewhere and all you have to do is to get off at the right stop.<\/p>\n<p>And that is one of the features of the argument that has been going on here and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Its called STFU Station.  Everyone&#8217;s got their own; Everyone has their own point at which they would like the argument to stop, not continue, be declared over, be determined to have gone on too long, and ideally that is at the point when the subway has just pulled into the station that has your particular gig.<\/p>\n<p>Funny  how that works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I push you. Then, you push me. Then, I push you. Then, you push me. Then, I push you. Then, you push me. And I go &#8220;Hey, no pushing! Unfair!!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2AN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}