{"id":2153,"date":"2016-03-28T01:21:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T06:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2016-03-21T07:27:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T12:27:29","slug":"preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2016\/03\/preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Probably the best preparation is to be prepared to be unprepared.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I prepare. I plan. I am ready. I drive some people nuts with these habits.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere along the line I learned that I was never prepared for everything. Hence, I became prepared for that, too.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I learned to be prepared to be unprepared.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is actually easy to prepare. (confused yet? I am.) All I have to do is be ready to say, &#8220;That&#8217;s a surprise. I am not prepared for that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is actually almost impossible to do. I have to stand in front of a group of people and admit that I have lots of flaws. Yikes. That is tougher than it sounds for many of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Probably the best preparation is to be prepared to be unprepared. I prepare. I plan. I am ready. I drive some people nuts with these habits. Somewhere along the line I learned that I was never prepared for everything. Hence, I became prepared for that, too. I learned to be prepared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,116,42,108],"tags":[171,228,164,222],"class_list":["post-2153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adapting","category-authentic","category-process","category-reaction","tag-adapting","tag-authentic","tag-process","tag-reaction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153","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=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}