{"id":60,"date":"2003-07-30T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-30T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2003\/07\/60.html"},"modified":"2003-07-30T08:41:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-30T13:41:00","slug":"obviously-some-of-you-out-there-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2003\/07\/obviously-some-of-you-out-there-are.html","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n<br \/>Obviously, some of you out there are confused.  The phrase, &#8220;Hi, how are you?&#8221; is RHETORICAL!!  &#8220;Fine, and you?&#8221; is an appropriate and polite response.  It is not an invitation to launch into a detailed description of how you actually are to a relative stranger.  <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s establish some guidelines.  As a rule of thumb, if you&#8217;ve never had lunch with the person, they don&#8217;t really care how you are.  Regardless of how many times you&#8217;ve noshed with your buddy, if you are currently in the men&#8217;s room, he doesn&#8217;t really care how you are.  And if you are having the conversation through a stall door, well, then you really should think about getting a fish to talk to at home.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- Obviously, some of you out there are confused. The phrase, &#8220;Hi, how are you?&#8221; is RHETORICAL!! &#8220;Fine, and you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2003\/07\/obviously-some-of-you-out-there-are.html\" title=\"Read \">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}