{"id":3027,"date":"2019-12-23T01:19:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T06:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3027"},"modified":"2019-11-30T09:28:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T14:28:09","slug":"solutions-already-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2019\/12\/solutions-already-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Solutions Already Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Many of our problems already have solutions in waiting. And many of these are effective and inexpensive.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Person A: My kid won&#8217;t stop chewing on fill-in-the-blank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Person B: Put a drop of fill-in-the-other-blank on it. It will taste bad, and the kid will stop chewing on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Person A: Oh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Person A: So-and-so is ineffective. We need to move him out, but we can&#8217;t seem to fire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Person B: Give So-and-so duties they dislike. They will quit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Person A: Oh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are but two of many unsolvable problems that have plenty of effective and inexpensive solutions. These solutions exist. They are kept in the <em>Book of Effective and Inexpensive Solutions<\/em>. That book is difficult to find and is expensive. It usually comes from <em>The School of Hard Knocks<\/em>. Thanks to the Internet, however, we can Google the questions and find the answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are answers to most of life&#8217;s perplexing problems. We <em>just<\/em> have to stop being arrogant and become humble enough to ask for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Many of our problems already have solutions in waiting. And many of these are effective and inexpensive. Person A: My kid won&#8217;t stop chewing on fill-in-the-blank. Person B: Put a drop of fill-in-the-other-blank on it. It will taste bad, and the kid will stop chewing on it. Person A: Oh. &#8230; Person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,53,247,340,337],"tags":[313,174,248,342,338],"class_list":["post-3027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humility","category-problems","category-questions","category-simple","category-solutions","tag-humility","tag-problems","tag-questions","tag-simple","tag-solutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027","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=3027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3028,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions\/3028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}