{"id":714,"date":"2021-04-01T21:43:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T08:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andnow.me\/?p=714"},"modified":"2024-01-11T20:18:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T07:18:20","slug":"rbg-on-selective-deafness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andnow.me\/snippet\/2021\/rbg-on-selective-deafness\/","title":{"rendered":"RBG on Selective Deafness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ruth Bader Ginsburg, quoted in a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/02\/opinion\/sunday\/ruth-bader-ginsburgs-advice-for-living.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times article<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Another often-asked question when I speak in public: \u201cDo you have some good advice you might share with us?\u201d Yes, I do. It comes from my savvy mother-in-law, advice she gave me on my wedding day. \u201cIn every good marriage,\u201d she counseled, \u201cit helps sometimes to be a little deaf.\u201d I have followed that advice assiduously, and not only at home through 56 years of a marital partnership nonpareil. I have employed it as well in every workplace, including the Supreme Court. When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one\u2019s ability to persuade.<\/p><cite>Ruth Bader Ginsburg<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m familiar with this technique and have applied it liberally in recent times for a very specific reason which I will not go into here. Suffice to say it can be hard to do at first, but after a few dozen times you get to realise that so much of what you want to rail against turns out not to matter a mere day or two later. It gets easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth Bader Ginsburg, quoted in a New York Times article&#8230; Another often-asked question when I speak in public: \u201cDo you have some good advice you might share with us?\u201d Yes, I do. It comes from my savvy mother-in-law, advice she gave me on my wedding day. \u201cIn every good marriage,\u201d she counseled, \u201cit helps sometimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"mfb_rest_fields":["jetpack_publicize_connections","jetpack_featured_media_url","jetpack_sharing_enabled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andnow.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andnow.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andnow.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andnow.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andnow.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/andnow.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1301,"href":"https:\/\/andnow.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andnow.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andnow.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andnow.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}