{"id":807,"date":"2012-09-03T10:05:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T17:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/?p=807"},"modified":"2012-09-03T10:05:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T17:05:42","slug":"apologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/apologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Apologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat;\"><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apologies are less about hearing the words \u201cI\u2019m sorry\u201d than making sure someone understands the impact his or her actions.\u00a0 Before you say anything acknowledge that the other person may not have meant to hurt or upset you.\u00a0 If you are carrying some responsibility however small, that will put you in a better frame of mind when you approach the other person.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Email is off-limits if you are offering an apology; you should arrange a time for a real conversation, ideally in person, and if that\u2019s absolutely not possible, over the phone.\u00a0 As with most sticky subjects and situations, you want to avoid the word \u201cyou\u201d in favor of \u201cI\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Remember that you may not hear the magic words \u201cI\u2019m sorry\u201d.\u00a0 And that\u2019s okay.\u00a0 Because what all of us really want in these situations is to be heard and understood and to close the conversation with some sort of plan for not repeating the incident or situation.\u00a0 Cheers!<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies are less about hearing the words \u201cI\u2019m sorry\u201d than making sure someone understands the impact his or her actions.\u00a0 Before you say anything acknowledge that the other person may not have meant to hurt or upset you.\u00a0 If you are carrying some responsibility however small, that will put you in a better frame of [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}