{"id":4095,"date":"2024-03-25T01:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4095"},"modified":"2024-02-29T14:29:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T19:29:41","slug":"apology-and-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2024\/03\/apology-and-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Apology and Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I stumble on something that everyone else in the world has already heard. It is still brilliant.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The only apology is changed behavior.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I heard that on TV the other day. It seems that in various forms, it goes back to ancient times. It was new to me. Still, it is brilliant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, I was trying to do good and got confused&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is not an apology, that is justification. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, I will seek counseling and be a better person.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is not an apology, that is some sort of bet that I will forget what you did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry. What I did was wrong. I ask your forgiveness.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like that better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry. What I did was wrong. It will never happen again.&#8221; AND IT NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Changed behavior. I like that even better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips I stumble on something that everyone else in the world has already heard. It is still brilliant. The only apology is changed behavior. I heard that on TV the other day. It seems that in various forms, it goes back to ancient times. It was new to me. Still, it is brilliant. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,21,32,335,108,66],"tags":[228,143,154,336,222,186],"class_list":["post-4095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authentic","category-change","category-communication","category-ethics","category-reaction","category-word","tag-authentic","tag-change","tag-communication","tag-ethics","tag-reaction","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095","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=4095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4096,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions\/4096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}