{"id":4710,"date":"2026-10-05T01:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T06:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4710"},"modified":"2026-09-19T15:29:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T20:29:59","slug":"untangling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2026\/10\/untangling\/","title":{"rendered":"Untangling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sometimes, you have to work hard to untangle what someone is trying to convey. Then again, if their words are tangled, maybe they don&#8217;t have anything to convey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I spend much of my days untangling the words of others. Long documents; long talks, and the like. What is that person trying to convey? Print the document with a wide margin. Note key words and phrases. Draw pencil lines connecting similar thoughts. Key on the active words. Find the message!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes if the other person, the person who tangled everything, tangled all the words, they didn&#8217;t have a cogent thought to express. Perhaps all that tangling indicates confusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Untangling can reveal the key thought. Untangling can also reveal confusion. Which is which? I wish I knew ahead of time. Still, that&#8217;s the task at hand. Give it a good effort and either learn the idea or learn that the person could use some advising and assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes, you have to work hard to untangle what someone is trying to convey. Then again, if their words are tangled, maybe they don&#8217;t have anything to convey. I spend much of my days untangling the words of others. Long documents; long talks, and the like. What is that person trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,293,286,243,5],"tags":[154,294,287,244,128],"class_list":["post-4710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-concepts","category-conversation","category-reading","category-writing","tag-communication","tag-concepts","tag-conversation","tag-reading","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710","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=4710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4711,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710\/revisions\/4711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}