{"id":1014,"date":"2012-12-11T09:31:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T14:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohe.5c7.myftpupload.com\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2012-12-17T19:01:52","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T00:01:52","slug":"airtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/?p=1014","title":{"rendered":"Airtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ohe.5c7.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/peacock-12.121.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1023\" title=\"peacock 12.12\" src=\"http:\/\/ohe.5c7.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/peacock-12.121-170x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>This morning, my partner and I went out for breakfast. At the next table was a man in business attire having coffee with a woman. I was trying to read, but the man\u2019s voice was so loud that I kept getting pulled into his monologue. He was talking about his daughter, a graphic designer living in a small loft in New York City, sleeping on an air mattress, just starting her career, and so on. After 7 or 8 minutes of uninterrupted airtime, he asked the woman if she has any kids.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t hear her response. I just knew it was short, for he was soon talking <!--more-->again. Another 10 minutes passed before he bounced the attention back to her. She held the stage for maybe 30 seconds that time.\u00a0And so it went for the next 45 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>As my buddy and I were leaving, the man made a comment to his companion that made me smile.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m one of those people who holds everything inside,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ahhh, sometimes the distance between our public image and our self image is delightfully expansive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, my partner and I went out for breakfast. At the next table was a man in business attire having coffee with a woman. I was trying to read, but the man\u2019s voice was so loud that I kept getting pulled into his monologue. He was talking about his daughter, a graphic designer living&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotional-intelligence","category-self-awareness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}