{"id":2689,"date":"2015-10-20T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2015-08-04T03:06:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T03:06:31","slug":"epictetus-one-tongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2015\/10\/epictetus-one-tongue\/","title":{"rendered":"Epictetus, One Tongue"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we can hear twice as much as we speak<\/span>.&#8221; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #000080;\">Epictetus<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I really like this quote because I struggle with listening. I have had enough experience to know that if I take time and listen I will learn more about a situation or person. While I still struggle with this and fail from time to time; learning to listen has made a difference. The place that I have seen this most is with my sons. When I take time to listen when something is going on or one of the boys is speaking to me; I get a better understanding and can better handle the situation. My oldest is reading the Old Testament and after his evening reading he will ask questions &#8230; it not only allows me to have a conversation with him it allows us to build on our parent\/child relationship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">iron wil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we can hear twice as much as we speak.&#8221; &#8211; Epictetus I really like this quote because I struggle with listening. I have had enough experience to know that if I take time and listen I will learn more about a situation or person. While I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[805,48,743,145],"class_list":["post-2689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-epictetus","tag-experience","tag-listen","tag-speak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2690,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions\/2690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}