{"id":2105,"date":"2013-06-04T10:46:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T15:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2105"},"modified":"2013-06-04T11:03:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T16:03:25","slug":"communication-for-relationship-eye-to-eye-not-screen-to-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2105","title":{"rendered":"COMMUNICATION FOR RELATIONSHIP&#8212;EYE TO EYE, NOT SCREEN TO SCREEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NOTE:\u00a0 Please stop and first read article on &#8220;THE CASE FOR DAYDREAMING, AND BOREDOM, AND . . .&#8221;\u00a0 It prepares you for this one.<\/p>\n<p>Communication in a relationship is not a transfer of information.<\/p>\n<p>A relationship missing eye contact by choice or habit is incomplete and unsustainable.<\/p>\n<p>And, human relationships starve without touch.<\/p>\n<p>I promised my son a powerful punch line for this one:<\/p>\n<p>What can you absolutely not do when you have eye contact and touch in a real person relationship?<\/p>\n<p>YOU CAN&#8217;T USE TECHNOLOGY !<\/p>\n<p>AND, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">YOU DON&#8217;T NEED IT<\/span> !<\/p>\n<p>WOW !<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>Now you&#8217;ve arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t beat that.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t touch that.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t improve on that.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t rush that&#8212;that rush surpasses a tech rush any day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTE:\u00a0 Please stop and first read article on &#8220;THE CASE FOR DAYDREAMING, AND BOREDOM, AND . . .&#8221;\u00a0 It prepares you for this one. Communication in a relationship is not a transfer of information. A relationship missing eye contact by choice or habit is incomplete and unsustainable. And, human relationships starve without touch. I promised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2105"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}