{"id":33,"date":"2026-01-28T17:07:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perniciousthey.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"2026-01-28T17:07:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:07:45","slug":"so-what-can-we-do-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perniciousthey.com\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"So what can we do about it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So what can be done? How can we fight back against the pernicious they?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think it can be distilled down to three simple, sequential questions &#8211; and sometimes all three questions aren\u2019t necessary to improve clarity, incorporate nuance, and seek understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Who is they?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Are they all they?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Why are they like that?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More on these questions shortly, but in the mean time, try them out next time someone drops a pernicious they.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what can be done? How can we fight back against the pernicious they?&nbsp; I think it can be distilled down to three simple, sequential questions &#8211; and sometimes all three questions aren\u2019t necessary to improve clarity, incorporate nuance, and seek understanding. More on these questions shortly, but in the mean time, try them out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perniciousthey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perniciousthey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perniciousthey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perniciousthey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perniciousthey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perniciousthey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/perniciousthey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perniciousthey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perniciousthey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perniciousthey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perniciousthey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}