{"id":158,"date":"2009-02-26T13:21:57","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T19:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.messyblessings.com\/bethany\/?p=158"},"modified":"2009-02-26T13:21:57","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T19:21:57","slug":"the-importance-of-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/bethany\/2009\/02\/26\/the-importance-of-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve been thinking about communication (or a lack thereof) and wondering: <span style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #993399\">Why is communication important? <\/span><\/p>\n<p>No doubt there are myriad answers to this question, but today, I will simply share this quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because they don\u2019t know each other, and they don\u2019t know each other because they don\u2019t communicate with each other, and they don\u2019t communicate with each other because they are separated from each other. ~~ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornellcollege.edu\/news-center\/features\/MLK-19621\/index.shtml\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Cornell College, Oct. 15, 1962<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #993399\">Communication: the antidote to hate and fear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So what are you waiting for? Communicate already!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve been thinking about communication (or a lack thereof) and wondering: Why is communication important? No doubt there are myriad answers to this question, but today, I will simply share this quote: I am convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because they don\u2019t know each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16,27,33,67],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cavemama-off-on-a-tangent","tag-communication","tag-fear","tag-hate","tag-seperation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/bethany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/bethany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/bethany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/bethany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/bethany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/bethany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/bethany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/bethany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/bethany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}