{"id":15646,"date":"2011-05-18T10:39:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T15:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=15646"},"modified":"2011-05-18T10:39:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T15:39:57","slug":"3-cs-and-1-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/3-cs-and-1-s\/","title":{"rendered":"3 C&#8217;s and 1 S"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I arrived in Japan as a missionary, my trainer was Elder Wynder. The most important thing he taught me was the &#8220;Three C&#8217;s&#8221;. Maybe the rest of you learned these as kids (it seems like the kind of thing you&#8217;d hear in Primary), but I&#8217;d never heard them before.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t Complain<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t Compare<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t Criticize<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I made them my personal creed as a missionary, though I haven&#8217;t always lived up to them. They&#8217;ve covered a lot of ground for me. Of course, they&#8217;re not 100% all-the-time commandments. Sometimes there are problems that really need to be complained about in order to fix them. Sometimes comparison helps us discover what we can be. And criticism&#8230;well, maybe there&#8217;s never a good reason to criticize.<\/p>\n<p>My own contribution to the list is my &#8220;One S&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Avoid Sarcasm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sarcasm is the unblockable attack. When someone hurts you with sarcasm, getting defensive just makes you look wimpy and hypersensitive (and they can always respond with, &#8220;Hey, it was just a joke. Lighten up.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Were you taught the &#8220;Three C&#8217;s&#8221; growing up? And what would you add to (or remove from) the list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I arrived in Japan as a missionary, my trainer was Elder Wynder. The most important thing he taught me was the &#8220;Three C&#8217;s&#8221;. Maybe the rest of you learned these as kids (it seems like the kind of thing you&#8217;d hear in Primary), but I&#8217;d never heard them before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15648,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15646\/revisions\/15648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}