{"id":3957,"date":"2023-09-04T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3957"},"modified":"2023-08-12T06:40:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T11:40:27","slug":"did-my-words-make-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2023\/09\/did-my-words-make-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Did My Words Make Sense?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>To write is to be misunderstood. Gosh, not very optimistic but it is realistic. We should constantly ask, &#8220;Did my words make sense?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Never mind what it says, we know what we mean,&#8221; said an optimist about something we were reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, we did know what it meant. We read it half-a-dozen times and discussed it more. It would have been nice if we only had to read it once and not discuss it. Gosh. You can&#8217;t have everything, so just do the work and move on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How about we simply do better? Instead of having 50 persons each read it half-a-dozen times and discuss it for an hour, I&#8217;ll write it half-a-dozen times by myself so that the 50 other folks only have to read it once. That would save us 51 folks a lot of time and angst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps I am too optimistic. Perhaps my concern about not wasting money is silly. It seems, however, that we could do better. Let&#8217;s try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips To write is to be misunderstood. Gosh, not very optimistic but it is realistic. We should constantly ask, &#8220;Did my words make sense?&#8221; &#8220;Never mind what it says, we know what we mean,&#8221; said an optimist about something we were reading. Yes, we did know what it meant. We read it half-a-dozen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,113,32,316,368,35,5],"tags":[143,225,154,317,365,157,128],"class_list":["post-3957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-clarity","category-communication","category-improvement","category-resources","category-time","category-writing","tag-change","tag-clarity","tag-communication","tag-improvement","tag-resources","tag-time","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957","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=3957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3958,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions\/3958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}