{"id":4179,"date":"2024-07-29T01:37:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T06:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4179"},"modified":"2024-07-08T07:41:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T12:41:48","slug":"specifics-usually-mean-the-opposite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2024\/07\/specifics-usually-mean-the-opposite\/","title":{"rendered":"Specifics Usually Mean the Opposite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>When someone is quite specific in what they convey, they often mean the opposite.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I will inject some humor here,&#8221; often means that nothing funny will be said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t care about the money,&#8221; often means that I really do care about the money coming my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We are transparent here,&#8221; often means that of course there are things happening that we don&#8217;t tell everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For some reason, we tend to overstate or overcompensate for something that is important to us. That&#8217;s just something we do. We are an odd lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips When someone is quite specific in what they convey, they often mean the opposite. &#8220;I will inject some humor here,&#8221; often means that nothing funny will be said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t care about the money,&#8221; often means that I really do care about the money coming my way. &#8220;We are transparent here,&#8221; often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,32,63,257,231],"tags":[228,154,183,258,232],"class_list":["post-4179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authentic","category-communication","category-expectations","category-respect","category-trust","tag-authentic","tag-communication","tag-expectations","tag-respect","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179","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=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4180,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions\/4180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}