{"id":6329,"date":"2010-09-02T22:27:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T03:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=6329"},"modified":"2014-08-07T10:56:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T15:56:55","slug":"critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/critics\/","title":{"rendered":"Critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6330\" title=\"Critics\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/critics.jpg?w=393\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Everyone has an opinion and some get paid to share it with others.<\/strong> Sometimes an honest appraisal is appreciated and other times, not so much. In many ways the critique&#8217;s severity needs to be tempered with the recipient&#8217;s own skin thickness. That being said, I think there&#8217;s great value in constructive criticism provided that the goal is to offer pointers from an experienced point-of-view with the best interests of those being judged in mind. I&#8217;ve always found the role of critic to be a difficult one because I always fear hurting one&#8217;s feelings in the process of offering my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>I marvel at the confidence of Food Critic Jeffrey Steingarten, frequent judge of Food Network&#8217;s<em> Iron Chef America<\/em>. In the spirit of Simon Cowell he is quick to offer his opinion in a sort of blunt eloquence that borders on bourgeois snobbery. His assessments come off sounding harsh at times, but his praise is equally poetic. Mr. Steingarten&#8217;s finesse certainly elevates the well-delivered critique to its own art form, though largely diplomatic and almost all political.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has an opinion and some get paid to share it with others. Sometimes an honest appraisal is appreciated and other times, not so much. In many ways the critique&#8217;s severity needs to be tempered with the recipient&#8217;s own skin thickness. That being said, I think there&#8217;s great value in constructive criticism provided that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3XRuE-critics","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7521,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6329\/revisions\/7521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}