{"id":772,"date":"2009-01-05T20:32:54","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T01:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=772"},"modified":"2009-10-21T20:35:11","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T01:35:11","slug":"throwing-people-under-the-bus-is-habit-forming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/throwing-people-under-the-bus-is-habit-forming\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwing People Under the Bus is Habit-Forming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-773\" title=\"school-bus-front-study_l\" src=\"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/school-bus-front-study_l.jpg\" alt=\"school-bus-front-study_l\" width=\"233\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/school-bus-front-study_l.jpg 388w, https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/school-bus-front-study_l-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 85vw, 233px\" \/>I\u2019m a sports-guy and I read a lot of sports news; probably a lot more than I should.\u00a0 And if you\u2019re not, this story may not be on your radar, but it does illustrate an important point.\u00a0 Last week, one of Brett Favre\u2019s teammates on the New York Jets went on the radio and basically criticized Favre\u2019s performance, his personality, and <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">threw Brett Favre under the bus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now I don\u2019t want to talk about Brett Favre, or the guy.\u00a0 I just want to talk about the concept of throwing people under the bus.\u00a0 Here\u2019s what you need to understand.\u00a0 Anyone who would throw <em>anyone<\/em> under the bus, even someone you don\u2019t like, will one day throw <em>you<\/em> under the bus.\u00a0 So be very careful who you associate with who, even in their righteous indignation, would publicly or even privately throw other people under the bus.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">Jesus had a unique way of resolving personal conflict<\/span>; and that is, face-to-face.\u00a0 That rarely happens anymore with email, text, Facepage, Twitter, etc.\u00a0 It\u2019s too easy to fire off an emotionally laden response or over reaction to something that you\u2019ll learn to regret.<\/p>\n<p>My advice: <em>don\u2019t throw people under the bus<\/em>.\u00a0 Be generous.\u00a0 Even with those who deserve it, be generous.\u00a0 You\u2019ll be glad you did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a sports-guy and I read a lot of sports news; probably a lot more than I should.\u00a0 And if you\u2019re not, this story may not be on your radar, but it does illustrate an important point.\u00a0 Last week, one of Brett Favre\u2019s teammates on the New York Jets went on the radio and basically &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/throwing-people-under-the-bus-is-habit-forming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Throwing People Under the Bus is Habit-Forming&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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\/772"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}