{"id":1256,"date":"2011-05-11T10:45:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T14:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2011-05-11T10:45:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T14:45:38","slug":"josh-tholes-mental-toughness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2011\/05\/11\/josh-tholes-mental-toughness\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Thole&#8217;s Mental Toughness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Thole deleted his Twitter account yesterday.\u00a0 Big deal.\u00a0\u00a0 He tried it out, starting just before Spring Training, and a couple of months in he identified it as having little to no value for him.\u00a0 He received a lot of negative and hateful messages from classless &#8216;fans&#8217;, and ultimately decided any benefit of interfacing with fans and answering questions and sharing was offset by the raging avalanche of hate directed his way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The truth is Thole&#8217;s presense on Twitter was minimal at best, and there wasn&#8217;t a lot there.\u00a0 More beneficial is interacting and following other Mets fans and bloggers and discussion the team as fans.\u00a0 Two such people, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/KellyL1332\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly Lake<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/ogtedberg\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Berg<\/a>, both wrote nice posts about <a href=\"http:\/\/curiouscaseofsiddfinch.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/criticism-vs-personal-attacks-theres.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thole <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tedquarters.net\/2011\/05\/11\/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-josh-thole-quits-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, and they&#8217;re worth a read and a follow..as long as you&#8217;re not going to spew hate at them.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t we all get along?<\/p>\n<p>Btw, you can follow me on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/ceetar\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter <\/a>too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Thole deleted his Twitter account yesterday.\u00a0 Big deal.\u00a0\u00a0 He tried it out, starting just before Spring Training, and a couple of months in he identified it as having little to no value for him.\u00a0 He received a lot of negative and hateful messages from classless &#8216;fans&#8217;, and ultimately decided any benefit of interfacing with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2011\/05\/11\/josh-tholes-mental-toughness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Josh Thole&#8217;s Mental Toughness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1133,19,528,3],"tags":[883,2964,1896,14,1894,1895,1132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}