{"id":991,"date":"2004-05-08T00:21:49","date_gmt":"2004-05-08T07:21:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One skill I would like to have: mind-reading.<\/p>\n<p>There is so much said that we don\\&#8217;t really mean.  There\\&#8217;s so much we want to say, but we don\\&#8217;t say it because we\\&#8217;re being polite or we\\&#8217;re afraid to express ourselves.  We are afraid of the consequences, because we don\\&#8217;t know how the hearer will react.<\/p>\n<p>I want to read people\\&#8217;s minds and not have to guess what they\\&#8217;re thinking.<\/p>\n<p>But yet, there was a study done on couples.  If a couple was totally in tune with each other\\&#8217;s thoughts, their relationship wasn\\&#8217;t that great.  At the same time, if the couple didn\\&#8217;t hear each other\\&#8217;s thoughts at all, then the relationship wasn\\&#8217;t great.  Optimally, it was supposed to be somewhere in the middle&#8211;that both people would know 50% of each other\\&#8217;s thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>But for me, I dislike guessing.  I would rather know.  Pry into your mind, please!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One skill I would like to have: mind-reading. There is so much said that we don\\&#8217;t really mean. There\\&#8217;s so much we want to say, but we don\\&#8217;t say it because we\\&#8217;re being polite or we\\&#8217;re afraid to express ourselves. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=991\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/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-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}