{"id":2888,"date":"2006-01-31T13:59:37","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T18:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=2888"},"modified":"2006-01-31T14:00:51","modified_gmt":"2006-01-31T19:00:51","slug":"a-quick-and-easy-way-to-tell-if-something-youre-about-to-say-is-patronizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2006\/01\/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-tell-if-something-youre-about-to-say-is-patronizing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick and Easy Way to Tell if Something You&#8217;re About to Say is Patronizing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->If you&#8217;re speaking to two people, or to two groups of people, ask yourself: if I switch the subject and object of the sentence I&#8217;m about to utter, would the result be a horrifying gaffe?<\/p>\n<p>For example, from the pulpit: &#8220;The Valentine&#8217;s Sweetheart Dance will be held at 7:00 on February 10 at the Stake Center. Brethren, consider yourselves warned. Wives, you have my permission to beat up your husbands if they&#8217;re not ready to go at the right hour.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Bonus: A Quick and Easy Way to Tell if You&#8217;re Being Oversensitive to Paternalism<\/p>\n<p>If a failed attempt at humor worked in as a tagged-on patronizing comment provokes much more than a subtle roll of the eyes, a stifled sigh, and a throwaway blog post. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2888","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\/2888","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\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}