{"id":648,"date":"2006-11-09T18:07:03","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T01:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=648"},"modified":"2006-11-09T18:07:03","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T01:07:03","slug":"on-honesty-and-telling-it-like-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"On honesty and telling it like it is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I met up with one of the salemen in my company on the way to see a client and he was cranky as all get out and so I asked him why he was in such a pissy mood and he said he wasn&#8217;t. Later over drinks he told me he was mad at me because he thought I had misquoted his source &#8211; I hadn&#8217;t, because my own source had replicated the same information. But the fact that a little liquor enabled him to tell me what was honestly bugging him is why he is so endeared to me. <\/p>\n<p>When I got to the LaLa this evening &#8211; K was still there and the front glass doors were up &#8211; wow &#8211; the floor guys are coming tomorrow so the place was cleared out. He said he had gone to the D-Day museum and thought of me when he read a quote by Eisenhower &#8211; Eisenhower was talking about how getting along with a lot of different people was essential to leading the troops and the war effort. He spoke of the general in London who was difficult but he said simply a smile would disarm him. K said my smile covered up a lot of sins. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met up with one of the salemen in my company on the way to see a client and he was cranky as all get out and so I asked him why he was in such a pissy mood and he said he wasn&#8217;t. Later over drinks he told me he was mad at me because he thought I had misquoted his source &#8211; I hadn&#8217;t, because my own source had replicated the same information.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-as","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}