{"id":3664,"date":"2022-06-09T01:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T06:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3664"},"modified":"2022-05-21T06:11:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T11:11:51","slug":"the-boy-who-cried-wolf-and-other-tales-of-adulthood-in-the-2020s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2022\/06\/the-boy-who-cried-wolf-and-other-tales-of-adulthood-in-the-2020s\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boy Who Cried Wolf and Other Tales of Adulthood in the 2020s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Please, choose words wisely so that actions will match the words.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday, I was hit with a couple of examples of the Aesop&#8217;s fable. The trouble was, these were real life, and a boy wasn&#8217;t crying\u2014it was adults jabbering nonsense. I won&#8217;t repeat the examples. There is something about these crying-wolf examples that when repeated a day or two later they are so ridiculous that they are not believable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes people exaggerate to make a point. &#8220;The hole in the roof is thiiiiiiiiiisssssss big,&#8221; we exclaim with arms stretched wide to stress that a repair is needed right now. No. The hole was not that big, but we all understand, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes the exaggeration proclaims something else. The speaker exaggerates to the point of lying, and once a person lies they become like the boy crying wolf in the fable; no one trusts a liar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If exaggerating to make a point, preface the exaggeration with, &#8220;I am exaggerating to make a point. I need your attention right now.&#8221; That works better. Not great, but better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Words that don&#8217;t match action or needed action tend to be heard as lies. Let&#8217;s be careful and do better, especially if you need people to work unpaid overtime over the weekend because fill-in-the-blank-with-an-untrue-catastrophe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Please, choose words wisely so that actions will match the words. Yesterday, I was hit with a couple of examples of the Aesop&#8217;s fable. The trouble was, these were real life, and a boy wasn&#8217;t crying\u2014it was adults jabbering nonsense. I won&#8217;t repeat the examples. There is something about these crying-wolf examples [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,22,477,117,9,66],"tags":[183,144,478,229,132,186],"class_list":["post-3664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expectations","category-fable","category-honesty","category-integrity","category-management","category-word","tag-expectations","tag-fable","tag-honesty","tag-integrity","tag-management","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664","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=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3665,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions\/3665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}