{"id":2729,"date":"2018-09-20T01:36:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T06:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2018-09-01T09:15:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T14:15:17","slug":"questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2018\/09\/questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions often accompany learning. Not everyone, however, wants to provide me with opportunities to learn.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have two grandchildren. They are growing, changing, learning, and questioning everyday. It is a joy to observe and participate.<\/p>\n<p>They ask questions. My granddaughter, ever the good school student, even raises her hand sometimes when she wants to ask me a question. They spur me to ask questions more often. Yes, even at my age, I learn from my grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Still, my colleagues are not always thrilled at my questions. Hence, I try to ask questions that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>make sense<\/li>\n<li>have answers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not a good use of time to ask a colleague, &#8220;Why do you have errors in your software?&#8221; or &#8220;Do you have to cough so much?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I would learn something if my colleagues would answer these questions. Do these questions, however, have answers? Would these questions merely waste time? I could go on and on with the philosophical benefit of causing a mind to churn and such. Still, is it my place to cause others to think they way I want them to think?<\/p>\n<p>Ask questions. And try to ask questions that make sense and have answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Questions often accompany learning. Not everyone, however, wants to provide me with opportunities to learn. I have two grandchildren. They are growing, changing, learning, and questioning everyday. It is a joy to observe and participate. They ask questions. My granddaughter, ever the good school student, even raises her hand sometimes when she [&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],"tags":[248],"class_list":["post-2729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions","tag-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729","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=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2730,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions\/2730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}