{"id":3043,"date":"2020-01-20T01:54:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T06:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3043"},"modified":"2020-01-11T09:09:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T14:09:23","slug":"inviting-questions-take-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2020\/01\/inviting-questions-take-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Inviting Questions (take care)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The person asking the questions drives the conversation. Take care when inviting such.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Any questions?&#8221; asked many confident, but somewhat ignorant persons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The person asking the questions drives the conversation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;What about the color of the coffee cups?,&#8221; asked someone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Er, but I want to show you our new fill-in-the-blank,&#8221; replied the confident presenter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I care about my lunch break. What about the chairs in the lunch room?,&#8221; continued to questioner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Er, but, I was talking about&#8230;&#8221; replied the less confident presenter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;And when will we a better brand of coffee?&#8221; continued the questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Silence from the despondent and now zero-confidence presenter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The person asking the questions drives the conversation. Take care when inviting questions. The conversation may go in an undesired direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips The person asking the questions drives the conversation. Take care when inviting such. &#8220;Any questions?&#8221; asked many confident, but somewhat ignorant persons. The person asking the questions drives the conversation. &#8220;What about the color of the coffee cups?,&#8221; asked someone. &#8220;Er, but I want to show you our new fill-in-the-blank,&#8221; replied the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,247],"tags":[154,248],"class_list":["post-3043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-questions","tag-communication","tag-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043","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=3043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3044,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions\/3044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}