{"id":2724,"date":"2010-08-30T03:15:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T09:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=2724"},"modified":"2010-09-12T14:10:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T20:10:52","slug":"the-buttless-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/the-buttless-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"The Butless Apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.towerofpower.com.au\/images\/articles\/how-to-correctly-apologize.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"187\" \/>Here is the scene:\u00a0 It\u2019s a national figure on CNN, tearful, head-bowed, offering an apology for the mistakes they\u2019ve made.<\/p>\n<p>Everything\u2019s going great.\u00a0 It seems as though they\u2019ve accepted responsibility for the titanic blunder they\u2019ve just been caught making, and here it comes: the butt.\u00a0 And with that small word, b-u-t, they negate the goodwill the apology created, and put themselves right back into the ditch.<\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019ve done something stupid at home, in your marriage, at work, with your friends, with your children, why do we need the \u201cbutt\u201d?\u00a0 Take full responsibility.\u00a0 Don\u2019t use the apology as a cover for lashing out at people you are angry with, disappointed with, or that you feel betrayed you.\u00a0 If you\u2019re going to apologize, <em>apologize<\/em>. Take the full weight of responsibility, humble yourself, ask for forgiveness, and then be silent.\u00a0 And you\u2019ll be amazed at what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the scene:\u00a0 It\u2019s a national figure on CNN, tearful, head-bowed, offering an apology for the mistakes they\u2019ve made. Everything\u2019s going great.\u00a0 It seems as though they\u2019ve accepted responsibility for the titanic blunder they\u2019ve just been caught making, and here it comes: the butt.\u00a0 And with that small word, b-u-t, they negate the goodwill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/the-buttless-apology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Butless Apology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}