{"id":4819,"date":"2004-05-07T12:07:48","date_gmt":"2004-05-07T16:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/05\/07\/empathy-and-tough-love-for-th"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:48","slug":"empathy-and-tough-love-for-the-instapundit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/05\/07\/empathy-and-tough-love-for-the-instapundit\/","title":{"rendered":"empathy (and tough love) for the Instapundit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"swing   <\/FONT>Get better, Glenn<\/A>.  You know Lileks<\/A> is right:<\/FONT><\/P>
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Get better! Go away for a week. Blog not. You’re not a public utility! We won’t call our city councilman if the tap’s dry for a while.<\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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No more waffling, please.  No more:  “<\/FONT>Okay. Not for a week, but for a while. One quick report, though . . .”<\/FONT><\/EM> <\/P>
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Please get away from your weblog (and maybe all news sources) for as long as it takes<\/EM> to get fully healthy.  Be grateful your malady is acute and not chronic.  Although this<\/EM> weblog has only a handful of readers, its Editor understands too well the constant temptation to choose the insta-pleasures of weblogging over health needs.  <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
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    skepticalEsq<\/EM>‘s doctor keeps shaking his head and saying, “You’re like an alcoholic who thinks he can walk into the bar and have just one drink.  Your ego is killing you!”<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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    \"prof  So, listen to egoEsq<\/EM>:  Get all <\/EM>better.  Stop posting until your doctor and InstaSpouse give you a full bill of health.  It won’t happen instantly, but think how happy the webiverse will be upon your vibrant return!<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/LI><\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

       Get better, Glenn.  You know Lileks is right: Get better! Go away for a week. Blog not. You’re not a public utility! We won’t call our city councilman if the tap’s dry for a while. No more waffling, please.  No more:  “Okay. Not for a week, but for a while. One quick report, though . . […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1fJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13841,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions\/13841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}