{"id":2237,"date":"2016-07-28T01:36:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T06:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2016-07-11T07:42:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T12:42:04","slug":"silence-is-agreement-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2016\/07\/silence-is-agreement-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Silence is Agreement (not)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sometimes we operate our meetings and our groups with stupid, unspoken rules.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Silence is agreement<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is one of the things I was told as a much younger person on the job. If I didn&#8217;t object loudly in a meeting, I had agreed. Really? Says who? What was that about?<\/p>\n<p>I suppose it was something everything just sort of knew ahead of time. If you didn\u2019t know it, you were too stupid to contribute.<\/p>\n<p>I think this unspoken rule has fallen in use over the years. I am happy to see that. I always felt it was stupid. Everyone was assuming what everyone else thought. It was if everyone was reading the minds of everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>How did anyone ever conclude that?<\/p>\n<p>If I want to know what someone thinks, I as them what they think. Perhaps that is too obvious to write, but there, I wrote it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes we operate our meetings and our groups with stupid, unspoken rules. Silence is agreement This is one of the things I was told as a much younger person on the job. If I didn&#8217;t object loudly in a meeting, I had agreed. Really? Says who? What was that about? I suppose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,25],"tags":[154,147],"class_list":["post-2237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-meetings","tag-communication","tag-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237","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=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2238,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions\/2238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}