{"id":3843,"date":"2019-01-19T18:47:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T00:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3843"},"modified":"2019-01-19T18:47:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T00:47:25","slug":"marginal-analogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3843","title":{"rendered":"MARGINAL ANALOGY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Be sure to share this only in a guaranteed acceptance atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>When everyone was talking and drooling over engagement ring stories, including the new one in the group, I shared a lame (risky) analogy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I told my kids that their gpa matters only until they get their first job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is fun to watch people in the group as the first person gets it, then others.<\/p>\n<p>The person telling this might want to play low key at that time.<\/p>\n<p>[Please note this is filed under &#8216;fun.&#8217;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be sure to share this only in a guaranteed acceptance atmosphere. When everyone was talking and drooling over engagement ring stories, including the new one in the group, I shared a lame (risky) analogy. &#8220;I told my kids that their gpa matters only until they get their first job.&#8221; It is fun to watch people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843"}],"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=3843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3844,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843\/revisions\/3844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}