{"id":4247,"date":"2024-12-02T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T06:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4247"},"modified":"2024-11-08T06:04:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T11:04:55","slug":"half-of-what-you-see-none-of-what-you-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2024\/12\/half-of-what-you-see-none-of-what-you-hear\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of What You See, None of What You Hear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This is an old saying told to me many, many years ago. It is true today more than ever.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recent &#8220;reports&#8221; tell me that some Federal agencies are arresting folks who are merely trying to help their neighbors. And I hear of nice folks pointing guns at other Americans who are temporary employees of some Federal agencies. Americans are stopping Americans from helping Americans. Really? Are we this bad?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A long time ago (it was in this galaxy not one far, far away), an older person told me the title of this little blog post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don&#8217;t believe half of what you see and none of what you hear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is more true today than ever before. Recent technology makes it really easy to holler something that a lot of folks can hear. And nobody can corner me and ask, &#8220;Hey, are you sure about that? If not, would you take it back?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What to do? Follow the advice given me. I read and watch stuff online that comes from people I know, i.e., people I can corner and ask, &#8220;Hey, are you sure about that?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other sources of information? Sigh. Move on. We can do better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips This is an old saying told to me many, many years ago. It is true today more than ever. Recent &#8220;reports&#8221; tell me that some Federal agencies are arresting folks who are merely trying to help their neighbors. And I hear of nice folks pointing guns at other Americans who are temporary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,113,63,48,310,20,275],"tags":[173,225,183,170,311,142,276],"class_list":["post-4247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choose","category-clarity","category-expectations","category-general-systems-thinking","category-information","category-learning","category-listening","tag-choose","tag-clarity","tag-expectations","tag-general-systems-thinking","tag-information","tag-learning","tag-listening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247","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=4247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4248,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions\/4248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}