{"id":36741,"date":"2014-05-03T14:07:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T18:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=36741"},"modified":"2015-08-04T18:24:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T23:24:52","slug":"block-them-to-give-them-privacy-to-work-their-stuff-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/block-them-to-give-them-privacy-to-work-their-stuff-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Block them to give them privacy to work their stuff out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?page_id=3378\">Domino <\/a>wrote about being granted &#8220;painful freedom&#8221; after being blocked by someone on Facebook.\u00a0 Sometimes the kindest thing you can do is block. I spent years trying not to trigger drama queens before I exercised my power. Friends don&#8217;t make friends walk on eggshells, period. The blocking is a holy sacred act to give them privacy to work their stuff out.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?page_id=3378\">Domino<\/a> said &#8220;(Blocking) can be an act of emotional violence.&#8221; It can also be <em>in defense o<\/em>f emotional violence.&#8221;\u00a0 My criteria is usually if it&#8217;s repetitively unkind, untrue and with agenda to change public perception, or a public display that differs from what goes on behind the scenes. Count me out. Block me, please.<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/block-them-to-give-them-privacy-to-work-their-stuff-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Block them to give them privacy to work their stuff out&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/block-them-to-give-them-privacy-to-work-their-stuff-out\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/block-them-to-give-them-privacy-to-work-their-stuff-out\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/block-them-to-give-them-privacy-to-work-their-stuff-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Block%20them%20to%20give%20them%20privacy%20to%20work%20their%20stuff%20out&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/block-them-to-give-them-privacy-to-work-their-stuff-out\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domino wrote about being granted &#8220;painful freedom&#8221; after being blocked by someone on Facebook.\u00a0 Sometimes the kindest thing you can do is block. I spent years trying not to trigger drama queens before I exercised my power. Friends don&#8217;t make friends walk on eggshells, period. The blocking is a holy sacred act to give them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42373,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36741\/revisions\/42373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}