{"id":2241,"date":"2016-08-04T01:44:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T06:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2016-07-18T07:49:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T12:49:51","slug":"short-and-bitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2016\/08\/short-and-bitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Short and Bitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sometimes the news has a sharp, pungent taste or smell.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Short and sweet is a fond, old cliche. Gosh, wouldn&#8217;t real life be better if most news were short and sweet? Sometimes that is not life; sometimes the news in life is short and bitter.<\/p>\n<p>So, let&#8217;s attempt to learn something from bitter news. What does bitter news tell me? Consider a few questions and add more that are relevant to yourself.:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What does this tell me about myself?<\/li>\n<li>What does this tell me about my situation?<\/li>\n<li>What does this tell me about my colleagues?<\/li>\n<li>What does this tell me about my customers?<\/li>\n<li>What does this tell me about all the stakeholders?<\/li>\n<li>What else can I learn from bitter news?<\/li>\n<li>How can I react in a way that benefits all of us?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes the news has a sharp, pungent taste or smell. Short and sweet is a fond, old cliche. Gosh, wouldn&#8217;t real life be better if most news were short and sweet? Sometimes that is not life; sometimes the news in life is short and bitter. So, let&#8217;s attempt to learn something from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[247,108],"tags":[248,222],"class_list":["post-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions","category-reaction","tag-questions","tag-reaction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241","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=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions\/2242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}