{"id":17572,"date":"2023-04-12T04:18:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=17572"},"modified":"2023-04-09T16:34:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T23:34:20","slug":"pretending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=17572","title":{"rendered":"Pretending"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/9BA1088A-3ECF-4C8E-AE50-2B298F2EE84C_1_105_c.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17573\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=17573\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/9BA1088A-3ECF-4C8E-AE50-2B298F2EE84C_1_105_c.jpeg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 11 Pro Max&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1680768670&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;20&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00091827364554637&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"9BA1088A-3ECF-4C8E-AE50-2B298F2EE84C_1_105_c\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/9BA1088A-3ECF-4C8E-AE50-2B298F2EE84C_1_105_c.jpeg?fit=700%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/9BA1088A-3ECF-4C8E-AE50-2B298F2EE84C_1_105_c.jpeg?resize=490%2C367&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17573\" width=\"490\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/9BA1088A-3ECF-4C8E-AE50-2B298F2EE84C_1_105_c.jpeg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/9BA1088A-3ECF-4C8E-AE50-2B298F2EE84C_1_105_c.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/9BA1088A-3ECF-4C8E-AE50-2B298F2EE84C_1_105_c.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;Pretending to care saves me from having to understand.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This could be humor or it could be social commentary. Or both. Sometimes caring makes it worse. Example giving cash to a beggar who is an alcoholic. I saw it in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/\">WSJ<\/a> in a slightly different form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The photo is of the desert in bloom and yes those are the Superstition Mountains.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pretending to care saves me from having to understand.&#8221; This could be humor or it could be social commentary. Or both. Sometimes caring makes it worse. Example giving cash to a beggar who is an alcoholic. I saw it in the WSJ in a slightly different form. 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