{"id":285,"date":"2008-01-03T22:56:52","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T02:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/01\/03\/communication-skills-are-overrated\/"},"modified":"2008-01-03T22:56:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T02:56:52","slug":"communication-skills-are-overrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"Communication Skills are Overrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t it funny how during the honeymoon period, understanding each other is seldom a problem.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Communication skills&#8221; are highly overrated.\u00c2\u00a0 We don&#8217;t <em>want <\/em>to understand; that&#8217;s the problem.\u00c2\u00a0 We can&#8217;t say to our dog or baby, &#8220;I want to give you a little feedback on something you&#8217;ve been doing lately,&#8221; and yet we get along with them just fine.\u00c2\u00a0 I know two couples who because of an accident and a stroke <em>can&#8217;t <\/em>hear or talk but still are able to move past their problems and grow in love.\u00c2\u00a0 Work on communicating better, but also work on dwelling in love, the place of true understanding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Hugh Prather, <em>Spiritual Notes to Myself, <\/em>p. 48<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t it funny how during the honeymoon period, understanding each other is seldom a problem.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Communication skills&#8221; are highly overrated.\u00c2\u00a0 We don&#8217;t want to understand; that&#8217;s the problem.\u00c2\u00a0 We can&#8217;t say to our dog or baby, &#8220;I want to give you a little feedback on something you&#8217;ve been doing lately,&#8221; and yet we get along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassion","category-marriage","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}