{"id":19,"date":"2007-07-22T17:17:12","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T22:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/22\/ignorant-or-inconsiderate\/"},"modified":"2007-07-22T17:17:12","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T22:17:12","slug":"ignorant-or-inconsiderate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/22\/ignorant-or-inconsiderate\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignorant or Inconsiderate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a fine line between ignorance and inconsideration.\u00a0 Sometimes it is\u00a0difficult to classify someone&#8217;s behavior as either ignorant or inconsiderate.\u00a0 The similarity\u00a0leaves me wondering most often\u00a0while driving in traffic.\u00a0 For instance when I pass someone on the expressway, that driver may suddenly pull over into my lane to pass the car in front of him.\u00a0 Is the other driver ignorant of the situation because he did not\u00a0check whether the passing lane was clear?\u00a0 Or is he simply inconsiderate because he wants to pass, no matter if there&#8217;s another car already passing him?<\/p>\n<p>By definition, <em>ignorant<\/em> can mean unaware or uninformed, while <em>inconsiderate<\/em> can mean heedless or thoughtless.\u00a0 I guess someone can be unaware of something because he is thoughtless.\u00a0 Therefore someone can be ignorant because he is inconsiderate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a fine line between ignorance and inconsideration.\u00a0 Sometimes it is\u00a0difficult to classify someone&#8217;s behavior as either ignorant or inconsiderate.\u00a0 The similarity\u00a0leaves me wondering most often\u00a0while driving in traffic.\u00a0 For instance when I pass someone on the expressway, that driver may suddenly pull over into my lane to pass the car in front of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/22\/ignorant-or-inconsiderate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ignorant or Inconsiderate?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}