{"id":311,"date":"2012-05-02T10:19:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T14:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=311"},"modified":"2012-05-02T10:19:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T14:19:29","slug":"ten-phrases-that-indicate-obduracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/ten-phrases-that-indicate-obduracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Phrases That Indicate Obduracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h4><em>Webster\u2019s Dictionary <\/em>Definition of Obduracy<\/h4>\n<p><em>The quality or state of being:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>hardened in feelings<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing or<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>resistant to persuasion or softening influences, as in unyielding.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s not my responsibility, it\u2019s theirs.<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Trust me to do the right thing, that\u2019s what you pay, elect, or assign me to do.<\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019re going to take it one step at a time.<\/p>\n<p>4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Those details aren\u2019t important.<\/p>\n<p>5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Why are you focussing on that?<\/p>\n<p>6)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I share your concerns, but this isn\u2019t the time to raise them.<\/p>\n<p>7)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019ll consult you when we have something concrete to present.<\/p>\n<p>8)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We need more information.<\/p>\n<p>9)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This isn\u2019t a public issue.<\/p>\n<p>10)\u00a0\u00a0 That decision can\u2019t be made until everything connected to it has been considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Webster\u2019s Dictionary Definition of Obduracy The quality or state of being: hardened in feelings stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing or resistant to persuasion or softening influences, as in unyielding.&#8221; &nbsp; 1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s not my responsibility, it\u2019s theirs. 2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Trust me to do the right thing, that\u2019s what you pay, elect, or assign me to do. 3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-politics-that-matter","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-51","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}