{"id":2870,"date":"2019-08-21T22:45:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T06:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2019-08-21T22:45:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T06:45:55","slug":"links-8-21-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/21\/links-8-21-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Links: 8-21-2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thagomizer.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/29\/we-don-t-do-that-here.html\">We Don&#8217;t Do That Here<\/a><br \/>      Quote: &quot;It is a conversation ender. If you are the newcomer and someone who has been around a long time says &ldquo;we don&rsquo;t do that here&rdquo;, it is hard to argue. This sentence doesn&rsquo;t push my morality on anyone. If they want to do whatever it is elsewhere, I&rsquo;m not telling them not to. I&rsquo;m just cluing them into the local culture and values. If I deliver this sentence well it carries no more emotional weight than saying, &ldquo;in Japan, people drive on the left.&rdquo; &ldquo;We don&rsquo;t do that here&rdquo; should be a statement of fact and nothing more. It clearly and concisely sets a boundary, and also makes it easy to disengage with any possible rebuttals.&quot;<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/community\">community<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/diversity\">diversity<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/inclusion\">inclusion<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/tech\">tech<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Don&#8217;t Do That Here Quote: &quot;It is a conversation ender. If you are the newcomer and someone who has been around a long time says &ldquo;we don&rsquo;t do that here&rdquo;, it is hard to argue. This sentence doesn&rsquo;t push my morality on anyone. If they want to do whatever it is elsewhere, I&rsquo;m not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/21\/links-8-21-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links: 8-21-2019<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2871,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions\/2871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}