{"id":4437,"date":"2025-08-18T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4437"},"modified":"2025-08-02T06:43:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T11:43:31","slug":"reading-the-fine-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2025\/08\/reading-the-fine-print\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading the Fine Print"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We have to read the fine print to understand our agreements. Why, however, is there fine print?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was reading through a contract document recently. I missed several things, just a couple of words buried in a 100-page document. I guess we call those things &#8220;the fine print.&#8221; Gotta&#8217; read the fine print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then again, I have to ask, why is there fine print? If something is important, why is it buried deep in a document in a sentence in a paragraph where the important detail is not the subject?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, ya&#8217; just have to be careful. Ya&#8217; just have to read slower and pay attention. Gotcha&#8217;!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then again, I have to ask about that. State general principles. State that not every clause on every line will be specified specifically. The general principles will apply. General principles like, &#8220;We will do the best we can. We aren&#8217;t perfect. We will make mistakes. Please work with us. We will assume the same about you and will work with you.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess those types of general principles won&#8217;t hold up in court or something. We can do better than burying things in the fine print. Let&#8217;s do better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips We have to read the fine print to understand our agreements. Why, however, is there fine print? I was reading through a contract document recently. I missed several things, just a couple of words buried in a 100-page document. I guess we call those things &#8220;the fine print.&#8221; Gotta&#8217; read the fine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[449,113,293,243,257,5],"tags":[450,225,294,244,258,128],"class_list":["post-4437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agreement","category-clarity","category-concepts","category-reading","category-respect","category-writing","tag-agreement","tag-clarity","tag-concepts","tag-reading","tag-respect","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437","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=4437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4438,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions\/4438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}