{"id":1564,"date":"2013-12-26T01:35:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T06:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2013\/12\/not-becoming-involved\/"},"modified":"2013-12-01T05:41:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T10:41:09","slug":"not-becoming-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2013\/12\/not-becoming-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Becoming Involved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Give yourself permission to not be involved with an argument, especially an argument between another person and yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have often seen people argue. The vast majority of the time, I told myself:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I won&#8217;t become involved in that argument.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In essense, I give myself permission to stay out of a discussion that is heated and won&#8217;t lead to anything worthwhile in the vast majority of cases.<\/p>\n<p>How about this little twist on that situation. When I notice myself arguing with another person, perhaps I tell myself&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I won&#8217;t become involved in this argument, either.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmm, I give myself permission to stay out of a discussion that is heated and won&#8217;t lead to anything worthwhile in the vast majority of cases. Simple as that. Life can sure be easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Give yourself permission to not be involved with an argument, especially an argument between another person and yourself. I have often seen people argue. The vast majority of the time, I told myself: I won&#8217;t become involved in that argument. In essense, I give myself permission to stay out of a discussion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33,53],"tags":[154,155,174],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-health","category-problems","tag-communication","tag-health","tag-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","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=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1572,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions\/1572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}