{"id":1015,"date":"2008-05-30T06:13:37","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T11:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:33","slug":"my-favorite-pauschisms-tell-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1015","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Pauschisms: Tell the Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>If I could only give three words of advice, they would be &#8220;tell the truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If I got three more words, I would add: &#8220;All the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort. But like many short-term strategies, it&#8217;s ineffective in the long-term. You run into people again later, and they remember you lied to them.<\/p>\n<p>And they tell lots of other people about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Randy Pausch in <em>The Last Lecture<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tis the season for political statements and promises, so this one really rang my bell this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Of course it&#8217;s good advice for not just politicians, but also preachers, elders, doctors, teenage sons, lawyers (especially lawyers), short-order cooks and floor sweepers.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I&#8217;m pleased to report that <em>Ocular Fusion<\/em> is now the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&#038;hs=9mh&#038;q=pauschisms&#038;btnG=Search\">#1 Google hit for the word &#8220;Pauschisms.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rock on, Randy. And have a great weekend, everyone.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--be3b4ec8b105eb1bb8a85757a04319c6-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--be3b4ec8b105eb1bb8a85757a04319c6-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--be3b4ec8b105eb1bb8a85757a04319c6--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I could only give three words of advice, they would be &#8220;tell the truth.&#8221; If I got three more words, I would add: &#8220;All the time.&#8221; People lie for lots of reasons, often because it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,94,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pauschisms","category-randy-pausch","category-the-last-lecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9400,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/9400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}