{"id":4236,"date":"2009-11-17T23:45:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T15:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=4236"},"modified":"2009-11-23T10:56:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T02:56:09","slug":"compliment-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/11\/compliment-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Compliment &#038; Complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4238\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/124.jpg?resize=130%2C91\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/124.jpg?w=130&amp;ssl=1 130w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/124.jpg?resize=96%2C67&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Tit for a Tat (62)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tit:<\/span> Why didn\u2019t you thank the waitress?<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><br \/>\nTat:<\/span> Why should I? Her service was atrocious! <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tit:<\/span> Well, you can thank her for serving you, while telling her she should improve her service.<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tat:<\/span> But to serve is her job.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tit:<\/span> Yes, which is different from serving well, which would be doing a good job.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tat:<\/span> So why thank her for just doing her job?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tat:<\/span> Well, she didn&#8217;t have to serve at all, and a compliment before a complaint makes it more palatable!<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Next aT4aT: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/11\/not-sure-now\">https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/11\/not-sure-now<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Previous aT4aT: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/11\/thanking-each-other\">https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/11\/thanking-each-other<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tit for a Tat (62) Tit: Why didn\u2019t you thank the waitress? Tat: Why should I? Her service was&#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":[155],"class_list":["post-4236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-gratitude","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236","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=4236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}