{"id":863,"date":"2011-07-11T01:28:55","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T06:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=863"},"modified":"2011-07-04T05:40:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T10:40:07","slug":"change-the-world-0-08-cook-a-meal-and-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2011\/07\/change-the-world-0-08-cook-a-meal-and-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Change the World &#8211; 0.08 &#8211; Cook a Meal and Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cook a meal, invite someone to eat it with you, and listen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2010\/09\/valuable-talents\/\">I wrote about this topic earlier<\/a>. I had forgotten about that earlier post until I started writing this one. I guess some ideas are harder to get out of my head than others. They keep bouncing about in my brain as if there is more to the message than I have expressed.<\/p>\n<p>I find that many people have\u00a0 such ideas bouncing about in their heads. The ideas are not a blessing, but a plague. The ideas scare away sleep, keep other work from happening, and generally drain energy. They need an outlet; they need a person to sit and <strong>listen<\/strong> so the ideas can be freed.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is the meal. Yes, there is hunger in the world. No, there aren&#8217;t many people in my part of suburbia that haven&#8217;t eaten a thing in three days. Still, we eat and some chemical and biological processes kick in while we eat. I don&#8217;t understand all that. I have, however,\u00a0 experienced that people seem to relax a bit and talk more while eating.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of commercial places to eat in my part of suburbia. Inviting someone to one of these places for a meal and to listen can change the world. If possible, though, cook the meal yourself, invite the person into your home, and listen. The ideas will flow; energy will return, and the world will change a little bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Cook a meal, invite someone to eat it with you, and listen. I wrote about this topic earlier. I had forgotten about that earlier post until I started writing this one. I guess some ideas are harder to get out of my head than others. They keep bouncing about in my brain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,32],"tags":[143,154],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-communication","tag-change","tag-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","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=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}