{"id":2200,"date":"2016-06-02T01:26:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T06:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2016-05-16T08:30:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T13:30:30","slug":"they-are-my-customer-but-not-my-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2016\/06\/they-are-my-customer-but-not-my-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"They are My Customer, but not My Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>My customer pays me for a product or a service. I provide it. I do not, however, have to allow my customer to be my teacher.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My customer is my customer. They pay me for a product or a service, and I provide that.<\/p>\n<p>However, I don&#8217;t have to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>act like they act<\/li>\n<li>talk like they talk<\/li>\n<li>treat people like they treat people<\/li>\n<li>hate like they hate<\/li>\n<li>ridicule like they ridicule<\/li>\n<li>and so on<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have to learn from them.<\/p>\n<p>Not only does this apply to my customer, it also applies to my employer and a lot of other persons I meet each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips My customer pays me for a product or a service. I provide it. I do not, however, have to allow my customer to be my teacher. My customer is my customer. They pay me for a product or a service, and I provide that. However, I don&#8217;t have to: act like they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,251,20],"tags":[173,252,142],"class_list":["post-2200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choose","category-customer","category-learning","tag-choose","tag-customer","tag-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200","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=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions\/2201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}