{"id":193,"date":"2008-03-19T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.livingbythewordsofgod.com\/?p=193"},"modified":"2008-03-19T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T01:36:00","slug":"left-handed-compliments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Left-handed compliments. . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay so I ate a few sour grapes, but, hey, folks, if you can&#8217;t genuinely compliment someone without forwarding your agenda and inserting your dig, then sit on it.<\/p>\n<p>I mean &#8220;The music service was good <span style=\"font-weight: bold\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">today<\/span><\/span>&#8221; as in it wasn&#8217;t good last week and the week before and the week before. .  .  You get the point.  We are so full of ourselves.If you can&#8217;t compliment someone, then don&#8217;t say anything.<\/p>\n<p>Look at how selfish and manipulative this is.  I will only compliment you to bring you in line with what I want.Many people are just great if you &#8220;play ball&#8221; but make your life hell when you refuse to be manipulated.Sorry, must have flashed back to when I was still a pastor.  My bad.  Said all that out loud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay so I ate a few sour grapes, but, hey, folks, if you can&#8217;t genuinely compliment someone without forwarding your agenda and inserting your dig, then sit on it. I mean &#8220;The music service was good today&#8221; as in it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=193\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-spirituality-religion-truth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dxA8-37","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}