{"id":2322,"date":"2016-11-28T01:56:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T06:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2322"},"modified":"2016-11-14T08:04:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T13:04:23","slug":"explaining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2016\/11\/explaining\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sometimes, all that is needed is to explain the other people. This may be the most difficult task in the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some people just don&#8217;t understand some other people. Why not? Because those are other people who are somewhere else. The two groups of people need someone who lives with one group for a while and lives with the other group for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Then:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Explain to these people in this place what is obvious to the other people in the other place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, that is all that is needed. So, why doesn&#8217;t it happen? Some reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No one is paid to live among groups who &#8220;oppose&#8221; one another.<\/li>\n<li>Anyone who lives with the other group has been poisoned by their thoughts.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t have the time to do this.<\/li>\n<li>No one will listen to me anyway.<\/li>\n<li>Life is busy enough without wasting time on those other people and their silly notions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We could go on. Understanding those people is one of those simple things that seem almost impossible to accomplish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes, all that is needed is to explain the other people. This may be the most difficult task in the world. Some people just don&#8217;t understand some other people. Why not? Because those are other people who are somewhere else. The two groups of people need someone who lives with one group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,32,45,123,43],"tags":[225,154,167,124,165],"class_list":["post-2322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clarity","category-communication","category-differences","category-group","category-ideas","tag-clarity","tag-communication","tag-differences","tag-group","tag-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322","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=2322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2323,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions\/2323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}