{"id":103,"date":"2003-05-02T13:50:49","date_gmt":"2003-05-02T16:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/?p=103"},"modified":"2003-05-02T13:50:49","modified_gmt":"2003-05-02T16:50:49","slug":"not-really-a-divorce-more-like-a-separation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/not-really-a-divorce-more-like-a-separation\/","title":{"rendered":"Not really a divorce, more like a separation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of wonderful people have written me about the last post, and I thank you all.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made a decision to distance myself from the community. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going anywhere, and neither are you. Your links are simply being moved to a new section, away from anyone that can hurt my friends because of something I may say. And you certainly don&#8217;t need the pressure of &#8220;what is *that guy* doing here?&#8221; in your comments.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nRegarding the latest situation, I&#8217;ve learned one thing from the first time I stepped in that quagmire&#8230; the more you say the worse it gets.  So I&#8217;m not saying a word.<\/p>\n<p>I have better things to do at this time anyway&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A re-cap of the last really-longwinded post&#8230;<br \/>\n1) When I screw up, I screw up big.<br \/>\n2) When you&#8217;re not there, or ever been in a similar situation, it&#8217;s easy to judge with 20\/20 hindsight, isn&#8217;t it? There will always be a loose jackass here and there that think their two cents is needed on any given topic under the sun.<br \/>\n3) To use my comments just to call me a &#8220;dumbass&#8221; for some of the things I&#8217;ve done in my life is about as clever an observation as saying &#8220;Getting hit by a truck hurts&#8221;.  Come on people&#8230; where did all the deep thinkers go?<br \/>\n4) Hopefully the intelligent people will stick around, or come back when this ridiculously over-exaggerated drama blows over.<\/p>\n<p>Please, guys. No opinions or words of support on this.  I love you guys, and hopefully once everyone shuts up, maybe this whole thing will finally be behind us, as I&#8217;m sure you guys have better things to do too.<\/p>\n<p>Catch you all later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blogshares Drama &#8211; A lot of wonderful people remind me that there IS good in our community (and of couse a lot of spineless douchebags too), and maybe I shouldn&#8217;t give up on people as some aren&#8217;t willing to give up on me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-as-the-web-burns"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Not really a divorce, more like a separation - SoApBoX<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/not-really-a-divorce-more-like-a-separation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Not really a divorce, more like a separation - SoApBoX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Blogshares Drama - A lot of wonderful people remind me that there IS good in our community (and of couse a lot of spineless douchebags too), and maybe I shouldn&#039;t give up on people as some aren&#039;t willing to give up on me.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/not-really-a-divorce-more-like-a-separation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SoApBoX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"EricBrooksDotComWeb\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"EricBrooksDotComWeb\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2003-05-02T16:50:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Eric Brooks\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@EricBrooksCom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@EricBrooksCom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Eric Brooks\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/not-really-a-divorce-more-like-a-separation\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/not-really-a-divorce-more-like-a-separation\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Eric Brooks\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/#\/schema\/person\/8ff62df16d2105a698b2aa19323dca30\"},\"headline\":\"Not really a divorce, more like a separation\",\"datePublished\":\"2003-05-02T16:50:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2003-05-02T16:50:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/not-really-a-divorce-more-like-a-separation\/\"},\"wordCount\":288,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/#\/schema\/person\/8ff62df16d2105a698b2aa19323dca30\"},\"articleSection\":[\"As The Web Burns\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/not-really-a-divorce-more-like-a-separation\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/not-really-a-divorce-more-like-a-separation\/\",\"name\":\"Not really a divorce, more like a separation - SoApBoX\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2003-05-02T16:50:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2003-05-02T16:50:49+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/not-really-a-divorce-more-like-a-separation\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/not-really-a-divorce-more-like-a-separation\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/not-really-a-divorce-more-like-a-separation\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Not really a divorce, more like a separation\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/\",\"name\":\"SoApBoX\",\"description\":\"Rants and Raves of Eric Brooks. 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