{"id":2211,"date":"2016-01-05T11:20:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T18:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2016-01-05T11:37:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T18:37:57","slug":"2211","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=2211","title":{"rendered":"A small gesture of gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes it takes those from outside our culture to point out what we should hear.<\/p>\n

Cartoonist Yao Xiao saw how often people apologized in our culture as a sign of politeness. But apologizing is not the same as saying thanks.<\/p>\n

So, instead of offering an apology – make it a moment of gratitude<\/a>.\"xxxx963605-650-1449563743-baopu_15_yx_112415\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes it takes those from outside our culture to point out what we should hear. Cartoonist Yao Xiao saw how often people apologized in our culture as a sign of politeness. But apologizing is not the same as saying thanks. So, instead of offering an apology – make it a moment of gratitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-reflections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4WECr-2211","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2217,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions\/2217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}