{"id":14627,"date":"2025-07-22T14:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/?p=14627"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:49:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:49:24","slug":"never-apologize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/never-apologize\/","title":{"rendered":"Never apologize"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"top20\">\n<div class=\"center\">When you say stupid shit and read it back almost 2 decades later when you\u2019re cleaning up your blog<br \/>\nPart 3 of a series<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/sarah-palin-round-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sarah Palin, round 2.<br \/>\n01\/14\/2011<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"none\">Step 1: Say something snarky on Twitter.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16098 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20110113_tweet1.jpg\" alt=\"Tweet from @MoriahJovan on January 8, 2011: \u201cSo\u2026will everyone be satisfied then when Palin is assassinated? You know she\u2019s next.\u201d\" width=\"492\" height=\"178\"><br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li class=\"none\">Step 2: Have the internet shoot up in flames around you and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111118090743\/https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/01\/13\/palin-targeted-tweets-following-arizona-shooting-massacre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">get a mention at Fox News<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li class=\"none\">Step 3: Panic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From linked blog post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What I should\u2019ve said<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Naw, I shouldn\u2019t have. I\u2019ve regretted walking this back for years, since almost as soon as I posted it. Sure, I was panicked. Sure, I\u2019d been conditioned to apologize for shit I didn\u2019t do or that I wasn\u2019t sorry for to soothe some hurt fee-fees. Sure, I \u2026 and and and and and<\/p>\n<p>No, I wasn\u2019t sorry then. I\u2019m not sorry now. The internet is full of very clever and funny people, but it is also full of idiots with reading comprehension problems, deficits in reasoning, and broken sarcometers.<\/p>\n<p>Fuck all y\u2019all. I\u2019m only sorry I back-peddled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/when-i-was-edgy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u2190&nbsp;Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/unable-to-even\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Part 4&nbsp;\u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you say stupid shit and read it back almost 2 decades later when you\u2019re cleaning up your blog Part 3 of a series Sarah Palin, round 2. 01\/14\/2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[317,108,511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-politics","category-stupid-shit-i-said-a-long-time-ago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14627"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23834,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14627\/revisions\/23834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}