{"id":1430,"date":"2013-06-24T01:11:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T06:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2013-06-17T07:17:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T12:17:03","slug":"we-have-to-ask-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2013\/06\/we-have-to-ask-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"We have to Ask Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Children are easy to read as they haven&#8217;t yet perfected how to &#8220;act.&#8221; Adults are different, and I work with adults, so I have to ask them questions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Children don&#8217;t walk normally unless they are thinking about something else. They tend to scamper or duck their head and half run. They think that their parents won&#8217;t notice them running through a public place where they shouldn&#8217;t be running.<\/p>\n<p>Adults, on the other hand, have learned how to &#8220;act.&#8221; I guess we have learned how to behave, but I think the word &#8220;act&#8221; better describes us. We mask what we are thinking behind a facade of proper behavior.<\/p>\n<p>If I want to know what my 4-year-old grandson is thinking, I just look at him.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t, however, work with my 4-year-old grandson. He hasn&#8217;t yet mastered calculus and computer programming. I work with adults. The only way I know of understanding what an adult is thinking is to ask them and ask them and ask them and&#8230;well, you get the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Children are easy to read as they haven&#8217;t yet perfected how to &#8220;act.&#8221; Adults are different, and I work with adults, so I have to ask them questions. Children don&#8217;t walk normally unless they are thinking about something else. They tend to scamper or duck their head and half run. They think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,56,67],"tags":[154,177,187],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-family","category-work","tag-communication","tag-family","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions\/1431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}