{"id":3215,"date":"2008-03-15T04:33:01","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T04:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3215"},"modified":"2008-03-15T04:33:01","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T04:33:01","slug":"lets_talk_about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3215","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Talk About Your Big But But"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paulorfaleasblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/lets-talk-about-your-big-but.html\">Paul Orfalea<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>My December 31, 2007, blog entry was called What Do You Listen For? I wrote that if you listen for errors and offense, you will find them, but if you listen for truth and meaning, you will find them instead.<br \/>\nHow can you tell when someone is not listening for truth and meaning?  One sign is the word, \u201cbut,\u201d which suggests one has listened only for something to contradict. The Entrepreneurial Investor co-author Dean Zatkowsky calls the expression \u201cyeah, but\u2026\u201d a \u201creflexive rebuttal,\u201d a knee-jerk need to trump another\u2019s point with one of your own.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paulorfaleasblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/lets-talk-about-your-big-but.html\">Paul Orfalea<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>My December 31, 2007, blog entry was called What Do You Listen For? I wrote that if you listen for errors and offense, you will find them, but if you listen for truth and meaning, you will find them instead.<br \/>\nHow can you tell when someone is not listening for truth and meaning?  One sign is the word, \u201cbut,\u201d which suggests one has listened only for something to contradict. The Entrepreneurial Investor co-author Dean Zatkowsky calls the expression \u201cyeah, but\u2026\u201d a \u201creflexive rebuttal,\u201d a knee-jerk need to trump another\u2019s point with one of your own.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}