{"id":4720,"date":"2014-09-29T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T05:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=4720"},"modified":"2014-09-28T15:32:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T20:32:04","slug":"whoever-gets-the-microphone-defines-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=4720","title":{"rendered":"WHOEVER GETS THE MICROPHONE DEFINES REALITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"irc_mimg\">\n<p><strong>You&#8217;ve been there.\u00a0 The speaker exudes confidence and wants you to know something, something usually quite simple: &#8220;If you persevere, network, etc. like me you will see the same sort of success.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The not so secret truth is that there are people in audience who are more talented and more principled than the speaker, but their &#8220;success&#8221; pales in comparison.\u00a0 And since those who struggle never get the microphone, we are left with a skewed view of reality.\u00a0 Only successful people are given the opportunity to define reality!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We ought to listen to <em>some<\/em> folks without the microphone.\u00a0 She may have something very important to tell us.\u00a0 It takes discernment I grant, but then again it takes discernment to know who to listen to when they have the microphone!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"irc_mil\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=i&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=images&amp;cd=&amp;docid=zyN3X5NMvg-UPM&amp;tbnid=v4Mt2mRpZZySrM:&amp;ved=0CAcQjRw&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Flongislandmetfan.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F10%2Fit-must-be-post-seasonjimmy-rollins-is.html&amp;ei=w20oVPn1HIyMyASC2ICICQ&amp;bvm=bv.76247554,d.aWw&amp;psig=AFQjCNEpl3BYTH5HhsDHvWTwTSChinwkYw&amp;ust=1412022078080285\" data-ved=\"0CAcQjRw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 135px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-0KpkaFVKprM\/TocwuQ4-TmI\/AAAAAAAADoM\/HyQzNabBFLc\/s400\/Loudmouth.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"443\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve been there.\u00a0 The speaker exudes confidence and wants you to know something, something usually quite simple: &#8220;If you persevere, network, etc. like me you will see the same sort of success.&#8221; The not so secret truth is that there are people in audience who are more talented and more principled than the speaker, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,90,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-character","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4722,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720\/revisions\/4722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}