{"id":2064,"date":"2015-05-25T20:05:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T00:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unclerickaudios.com\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2015-05-25T20:05:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T00:05:59","slug":"powerful-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/2015\/05\/25\/powerful-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, little buddies!<br \/>\nLast week I wrote to you about being careful how we use words. Have you ever thought about how powerful words are?<\/p>\n<p>I used to have a bad habit of insulting my friends. I guess I picked it up from watching television. It seems on TV everybody always has a clever, funny thing to say at just the right moment. So I guess we just followed that example and slammed each other just for fun. We were just kidding, so we figured there was no harm done.<\/p>\n<p>But later in life I realized that most people don\u2019t like to be insulted, even as a joke. They may laugh on the outside, but their feelings inside can really be hurt. There are other ways of being friendly or being funny. It just takes more thought.<\/p>\n<p>Remember to be careful how you speak to people, ok?<\/p>\n<p>Until next time,<\/p>\n<p>Uncle Rick<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, little buddies! Last week I wrote to you about being careful how we use words. Have you ever thought about how powerful words are? I used to have a bad habit of insulting my friends. I guess I picked it up from watching television. It seems on TV everybody always has a clever, funny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2,4,5,6,7],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-character-lessons","tag-character-concepts","tag-character-stories","tag-helping-parents-raise-kids-of-character","tag-kids-blog","tag-uncle-rick-audio-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}