{"id":235,"date":"2015-11-10T18:15:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T18:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2019-08-30T21:18:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T21:18:22","slug":"words-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/words-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Words Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What a load of you-know-what.<\/p>\n<p>I was on the phone the other day having a conversation that repeats itself in many forms all too often. The person on the other end of the line says something and it makes me angry\/irritated\/frustrated\/insert-favorite-angry-word-here.<\/p>\n<p>Then I think to myself <em>You know, if they had just said it<\/em> this <em>way, it would have made all the difference<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2>Words matter.<\/h2>\n<p>I find myself less irritable with words when I feel respected.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the thing, too&#8230;.<\/p>\n<h2>I&#8217;m just as guilty.<\/h2>\n<p>And I know it.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m trying to think before I speak, especially in hard things.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to exude kindness even while saying things that could offend.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to listen, stop, breathe, and\u00a0<em>then<\/em> respond.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to respect people with my words, not just my emotions.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to visualize hugging the person first, then speaking.<\/p>\n<h2>Words matter.<\/h2>\n<p>Do your words encourage, uplift, and respect &#8211; even in hard things?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. What a load of you-know-what. I was on the phone the other day having a conversation that repeats itself in many forms all too often. The person on the other end of the line says something and it makes me angry\/irritated\/frustrated\/insert-favorite-angry-word-here. Then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,6,10,50],"tags":[70,71,72,73],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}