{"id":4318,"date":"2025-02-20T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4318"},"modified":"2025-02-08T08:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T13:26:15","slug":"obligations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2025\/02\/obligations\/","title":{"rendered":"Obligations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Other persons are not obligated to do things for me (as much as I wish). I am not obligated to do things for other persons (as much as they wish).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wish people would fulfill their obligations to me. I mean, look at what I have done for them. Surely, they will repay me or something in kind. What is wrong with them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess some people feel the same way about me. Why don&#8217;t I fulfill my obligations to them? I mean, look at what they have done for me. Surely, I will repay them or something in kind. What is wrong with me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sigh. I guess we all aren&#8217;t as obliged to one another as we wish sometimes in some situations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is something to try. Ask, &#8220;Is there something I should be doing?&#8221; When the reply is some gesture like, &#8220;Oh, no.&#8221; Ask again with more force, &#8220;Are you sure? Really, is there something I should be doing?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Take notes. We can do better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Other persons are not obligated to do things for me (as much as I wish). I am not obligated to do things for other persons (as much as they wish). I wish people would fulfill their obligations to me. I mean, look at what I have done for them. Surely, they will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,277,286,329,335,63,54],"tags":[120,278,287,330,336,183,175],"class_list":["post-4318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adults","category-commitment","category-conversation","category-error","category-ethics","category-expectations","category-technical-debt","tag-adults","tag-commitment","tag-conversation","tag-error","tag-ethics","tag-expectations","tag-technical-debt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318","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=4318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4319,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions\/4319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}