{"id":782,"date":"2020-11-24T19:07:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T03:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=782"},"modified":"2020-11-24T19:07:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T03:07:48","slug":"the-first-person-you-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/24\/the-first-person-you-ask\/","title":{"rendered":"The first person you ask"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The first person you ask might not know the answer to your question. Worse yet, they might give you an answer that\u2019s incomplete or incorrect and neither of you will know. Unless you keep asking other people. So keep asking different people. Shopping for a car, I went to the manufacturer\u2019s website and tried to find a dealer near me that had the car I wanted. They said there were 45 matches near me but none of them was an exact match. They said. But it turns out they were wrong because they didn\u2019t have up-to-date information on the dealerships\u2019 inventory. I found that out by going to the dealerships\u2019 websites, and then by calling the dealerships to make sure they had the car I wanted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t judge a book by its cover. Don\u2019t judge an answer by the first respondent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first person you ask might not know the answer to your question. Worse yet, they might give you an answer that\u2019s incomplete or incorrect and neither of you will know. Unless you keep asking other people. So keep asking different people. Shopping for a car, I went to the manufacturer\u2019s website and tried to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/24\/the-first-person-you-ask\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The first person you ask&#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-782","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\/782","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=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}