{"id":3696,"date":"2022-07-28T01:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T06:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3696"},"modified":"2022-07-05T07:21:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:21:37","slug":"rigidly-flexible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2022\/07\/rigidly-flexible\/","title":{"rendered":"Rigidly Flexible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>As a writer and just about anyone else, we must be flexible in a rigid manner. The same is true for almost every adjective and its antonym.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A writer must be flexible. Except when the writer must be rigid. Except when exceptions arise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The same goes for just about any adjective and its antonym and any person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A person should be open to new ideas. Except when that person should be closed to frivolous ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A person should be frivolous. Except when that person should be serious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A person should be disciplined. Except when that person should be naive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We could go on and on with these adjectives and their opposites. This unruly rule applies for almost all adjectives. I find a few for which this unruly rule does not apply. Those are important un-rules, but they are few.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips As a writer and just about anyone else, we must be flexible in a rigid manner. The same is true for almost every adjective and its antonym. A writer must be flexible. Except when the writer must be rigid. Except when exceptions arise. The same goes for just about any adjective and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,99,394,51,32,412],"tags":[171,214,393,173,154,413],"class_list":["post-3696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adapting","category-agility","category-alternatives","category-choose","category-communication","category-language","tag-adapting","tag-agility","tag-alternatives","tag-choose","tag-communication","tag-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696","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=3696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3697,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions\/3697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}