{"id":4489,"date":"2009-12-09T00:14:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T16:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=4489"},"modified":"2009-12-09T00:32:08","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T16:32:08","slug":"yours-unfaithfully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/12\/yours-unfaithfully\/","title":{"rendered":"Yours Unfaithfully"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4490\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/112.jpg?resize=103%2C104\" alt=\"\" width=\"103\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/112.jpg?w=103&amp;ssl=1 103w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/112.jpg?resize=96%2C96&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 103px) 100vw, 103px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Tit for a Tat (70)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tit:<\/span> What kind of person is he?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tat:<\/span> The &#8216;bad faith&#8217; type.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tit:<\/span> What do you mean?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tat:<\/span> He acknowledges you when he needs, to his advantage&#8230;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tit:<\/span> And doesn&#8217;t acknowledge you when there is no advantage?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tat:<\/span> Yes. He would be polite to me when he wants my help&#8230;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tit:<\/span> But treat you as non-existent in all other conditions?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tat:<\/span> Yes. Especially when you could do with his help, but when it doesn&#8217;t help him to help you.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tit:<\/span> Any example?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tat:<\/span> At work, he comes to me only for favours, but when he sees me walking by, he drives by&#8230;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tit:<\/span> As if you are not there and couldn&#8217;t do with a lift?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tat:<\/span> Yes. Not that there is any obligation to offer a ride, but I&#8217;m a person only when useful to him, and just a thing on the road when not.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tit:<\/span> Interesting how we alternate between being people and things at some people&#8217;s convenience.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tat:<\/span> Yes. But we too are sometimes guilty of that doing that!<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tit:<\/span> Yes. Especially when we come across the truly needy, whom we think can never help us, even if we help them.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\"> Next aT4aT: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/12\/the-way-it-was-meant-to-be\">https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/12\/the-way-it-was-meant-to-be<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Previous aT4aT: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/12\/mental-block\">https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/12\/mental-block<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tit for a Tat (70) Tit: What kind of person is he? Tat: The &#8216;bad faith&#8217; type. Tit: What&#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":[158],"class_list":["post-4489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-sincerity","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489","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=4489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}