{"id":437,"date":"2020-06-21T07:21:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T15:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=437"},"modified":"2020-06-21T07:37:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T15:37:07","slug":"things-i-l-learned-from-my-father-1-be-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/21\/things-i-l-learned-from-my-father-1-be-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I l Learned from My Father (#1): Be nice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If I said one thing about my father, or if there were only one thing that you knew about my father, it would be that he\u2019s a nice guy. He\u2019s the friendly guy in the elevator who strikes up a conversation with you and leaves you feeling good about the clothes that you picked out that day. He\u2019s the guy who stops to offer to take a picture of your group of friends so that everyone can be in the photo. At his own gatherings, he\u2019s the guy who takes the photo so that everyone else can be in it. He\u2019s the guy you sometimes don\u2019t see in the photo and he\u2019s happy with that. He\u2019s the guy you meet at a party, shows a genuine interest in you, and makes the whole conversation about you. He\u2019s the guy who calls you on your birthday.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And beyond the niceties, he\u2019s a standup guy. He\u2019s the last guy on the planet that would ever shortchange you. If there\u2019s one thing I learned from my father, it\u2019s this: Be nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I said one thing about my father, or if there were only one thing that you knew about my father, it would be that he\u2019s a nice guy. He\u2019s the friendly guy in the elevator who strikes up a conversation with you and leaves you feeling good about the clothes that you picked out &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/21\/things-i-l-learned-from-my-father-1-be-nice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Things I l Learned from My Father (#1): Be nice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}