{"id":8646,"date":"2021-04-05T03:19:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T03:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8646"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:02","slug":"5-easy-words-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8646","title":{"rendered":"5 EASY WORDS TO SAY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five of the easiest words to say are &#8220;If I were in charge &#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have you ever noticed that:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">98% of the time, &#8220;If I were in charge &#8230;&#8221; is a prelude to a sharp, thinly-veiled criticism of the person who IS in charge?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">99% of the time, the audience for &#8220;If I were in charge &#8230;&#8221; is anyone except the person who IS in charge?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">100% of the time, the one who says &#8220;If I were in charge &#8230;&#8221; truly is unaware of all of the factors involved in the decisions made by the person who IS in charge?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We need to think twice before we allow &#8220;If I were in charge &#8230;&#8221; to escape our lips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five of the easiest words to say are &#8220;If I were in charge &#8230;.&#8221; Have you ever noticed that: 98% of the time, &#8220;If I were in charge &#8230;&#8221; is a prelude to a sharp, thinly-veiled criticism of the person who IS in charge? 99% of the time, the audience for &#8220;If I were in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8647,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8646\/revisions\/8647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}