{"id":367,"date":"2010-09-27T17:30:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/?p=367"},"modified":"2010-09-27T10:05:38","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T12:35:38","slug":"that-thing-you-have-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/2010\/09\/27\/that-thing-you-have-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"That Thing You Have &#8211; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you didn&#8217;t see my post on Friday about <a href=\"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/?p=320\" target=\"_blank\">communications skills<\/a>, there was another gem from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dilbert.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dilbert<\/a>\u00a0posted on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Communications is so subjective and it&#8217;s hard not to offend someone if you think they&#8217;re being an idiot. It&#8217;s important to be careful about what words you use&#8230; if you start throwing around five-syllable words, people may start using a universal translator (AKA a dictionary) up as a means of translating you. Try to minimize the jargon and stick with three to four syllables max. Otherwise, someone may\u00a0realizing you&#8217;re mocking them.<\/p>\n<p>My to-blog list includes the recent social media comics they had two weeks ago (as mentioned in my earlier post). Definitely commenting on them soon&#8230; perhaps later\u00a0this week.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dilbert.com\" href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/strips\/comic\/2010-09-25\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/000000000\/00000000\/0000000\/100000\/00000\/0000\/700\/100760\/100760.strip.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Dilbert.com\" width=\"512\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you didn&#8217;t see my post on Friday about communications skills, there was another gem from Dilbert\u00a0posted on Saturday. Communications is so subjective and it&#8217;s hard not to offend someone if you think they&#8217;re being an idiot. It&#8217;s important to be careful about what words you use&#8230; if you start throwing around five-syllable words, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3zorl-5V","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}