{"id":1020,"date":"2014-12-14T11:09:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T19:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2014-12-14T11:09:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T19:09:45","slug":"offend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=1020","title":{"rendered":"Offend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>I got to thinking about this. I am not as concerned about offending people as much as others. Is that bad? Should I care what people think? Should I censor myself and not be brutally honest? Does it hinder my chances of making friends by being honest? I&#8217;ve always been an honest, to-the-point person. I am not fake. And sometimes I need to learn this. I don&#8217;t hurt people&#8217;s feelings, but I do tell them like it is. But I&#8217;ve found that being blunt DOES get you what you want; you just have to phrase things politely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to thinking about this. I am not as concerned about offending people as much as others. Is that bad? Should I care what people think? Should I censor myself and not be brutally honest? Does it hinder my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=1020\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}