{"id":3239,"date":"2023-04-07T20:35:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T00:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2023-04-07T20:36:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T00:36:35","slug":"a-little-empathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=3239","title":{"rendered":"A Little Empathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to take a refresher course in empathy, from time to time.\u00a0 I may need it more often than most.<\/p>\n<p>When someone appears to be having a moment, start by asking:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do you want to be helped, heard, or hugged?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Follow their decision and go on from there.<\/p>\n<p>For the source of the quote, and for a deeper discussion, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/04\/07\/well\/emotions-support-relationships.html?smid=url-share\">When Someone You Love Is Upset, Ask This One Question<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"When Someone You Love Is Upset, Ask This One Question\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2023%2F04%2F07%2Fwell%2Femotions-support-relationships.html#?secret=Xg0ozhGphK\" data-secret=\"Xg0ozhGphK\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to take a refresher course in empathy, from time to time.\u00a0 I may need it more often than most. When someone appears to be having a moment, start by asking: Do you want to be helped, heard, or hugged? Follow their decision and go on from there. For the source of the quote, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=3239\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Little Empathy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[598],"class_list":["post-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-life-lessons-with-dad"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o3FW-Qf","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3243,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions\/3243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}