{"id":4373,"date":"2025-05-15T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4373"},"modified":"2025-04-26T07:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T12:11:37","slug":"things-dont-have-to-be-this-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2025\/05\/things-dont-have-to-be-this-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Things Don\u2019t Have to Be This Way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Each of us has the ability to change something in a direction which we desire.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess this post is a pep talk or an admonition to &#8220;buck up sissy pants&#8221; (I think I heard that phrase on a TV show).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unhappy with the current situation? I am. Well, things don&#8217;t have to be this way. Things could be better (whatever better means to one person). Change them. Yes, I have the power to change things. Perhaps the only thing I can change is my thinking. Perhaps the only thing I can change is my attitude. Well, there are two things I can change right there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And if I can change my thinking and my attitude, perhaps I can influence the thinking and attitude of one more person. And so on in some sort of geometric progression or whatever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No, things don&#8217;t have to be this way. We can all do something to make things better. Let&#8217;s do better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Each of us has the ability to change something in a direction which we desire. I guess this post is a pep talk or an admonition to &#8220;buck up sissy pants&#8221; (I think I heard that phrase on a TV show). Unhappy with the current situation? I am. Well, things don&#8217;t have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,21,32,286,92,281],"tags":[120,143,209,282],"class_list":["post-4373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adults","category-change","category-communication","category-conversation","category-fear","category-influence","tag-adults","tag-change","tag-fear","tag-influence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373","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=4373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4374,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions\/4374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}