{"id":502,"date":"2020-07-19T21:56:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T05:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=502"},"modified":"2020-07-19T21:56:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T05:56:48","slug":"following-the-leader-vs-the-first-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/19\/following-the-leader-vs-the-first-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Following the leader vs the first person"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I often see my 2-year-old kid mimic the things my 4-year-old kid says and does, even when she doesn\u2019t know what she\u2019s repeating. It makes me think that there\u2019s a human tendency to just do whatever the person next to you is doing. That sounds very dangerous. Following should be a choice, not a knee jerk reaction. Follow a leader, not just the person who\u2019s first in line. Or better yet, be a leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often see my 2-year-old kid mimic the things my 4-year-old kid says and does, even when she doesn\u2019t know what she\u2019s repeating. It makes me think that there\u2019s a human tendency to just do whatever the person next to you is doing. That sounds very dangerous. Following should be a choice, not a knee &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/19\/following-the-leader-vs-the-first-person\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Following the leader vs the first person&#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-502","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\/502","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=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}