{"id":2942,"date":"2023-04-02T15:19:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T22:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/?p=2942"},"modified":"2023-04-02T15:19:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T22:19:51","slug":"responding-to-rudeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/responding-to-rudeness\/","title":{"rendered":"Responding to Rudeness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size\">Judith Martin of the&nbsp;Washington Post&nbsp;writes the article \u201cMiss Manners,\u201d which is syndicated in seventy-five other newspapers. She says regarding rudeness of speech:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cHow does one deal with a rude person? Politely. I don\u2019t believe in answering rudeness with rudeness under any circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cHow is that accomplished? With the stare or smile. I do not recommend the snappy comeback and putdown.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/archive\/horrified-insulted-relax-advises-judith-martin-good-manners-are-the-best-revenge-vol-18-no-6\/\">People Magazine,\u00a0Aug. 1982, p. 38<\/a>.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Politeness achieves much more than answering rudeness with rudeness. \u201cBe patient in afflictions,\u00a0<em>revile not against those that revile<\/em>.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/study\/scriptures\/dc-testament\/dc\/31.9?lang=eng#p9\">D&amp;C 31:9<\/a>; italics added.) \u2013 <em>Ted E. Brewerton, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/study\/general-conference\/1983\/04\/profanity-and-swearing?lang=eng\">Profanity and Swearing<\/a>,\u201d Ensign (CR) May 1983<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judith Martin of the&nbsp;Washington Post&nbsp;writes the article \u201cMiss Manners,\u201d which is syndicated in seventy-five other newspapers. She says regarding rudeness of speech: \u201cHow does one deal with a rude person? Politely. I don\u2019t believe in answering rudeness with rudeness under any circumstances. \u201cHow is that accomplished? With the stare or smile. I do not recommend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[492],"class_list":["post-2942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wool-quote","tag-kindness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2943,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions\/2943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}