{"id":3611,"date":"2009-09-05T00:05:37","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T16:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=3611"},"modified":"2009-09-05T00:05:37","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T16:05:37","slug":"confrontation-vs-clarification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/09\/confrontation-vs-clarification\/","title":{"rendered":"Confrontation Vs Clarification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3612\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/1.gif?resize=132%2C170\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"170\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I was younger and more foolish,<br \/>\nI used to avoid confrontation<br \/>\nbecause I would react in anger.<\/p>\n<p>When I became older and wiser,<br \/>\nI still avoid confrontation<br \/>\nbecause I knew anger wasn&#8217;t needed.<\/p>\n<p>Confrontation won&#8217;t do,<br \/>\nif it is to choose to confront angrily.<br \/>\nEmotional confrontation makes matters murkier.<\/p>\n<p>Clarification will do,<br \/>\nif it is to choose to clarify calmly.<br \/>\nRational clarification makes matters clearer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was younger and more foolish, I used to avoid confrontation because I would react in anger. When I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[123,440,89],"class_list":["post-3611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-anger","tag-calmness","tag-mindfulness","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}