{"id":1080,"date":"2010-06-17T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corbdesign.com\/blog\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2010-06-17T16:00:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T16:00:44","slug":"when-youre-not-sure-how-to-respond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corbinrose.com\/blog\/religion\/daily-grind\/when-youre-not-sure-how-to-respond\/","title":{"rendered":"When you\u2019re not sure how to respond\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Do not answer a fool according to his folly,<br>or you will be like him yourself.<br>\u2026<br>Answer a fool according to his folly,<br>or he will be wise in his own eyes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Proverbs 26: 4-5 (NIV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1. Pray<\/strong> -that you have the wisdom to respond with grace to a biting question and the discretion to know when to not retort at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2. Know your stuff<\/strong>\u2013 really, it helps. And it\u2019ll take a lot of the \u2018uh..\u2019 \u2018umm..\u2019 and \u2018like\u2019s out of your response. A knowledgeable, firm answer will often do the trick when an out-of-the-blue question comes up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3. Don\u2019t cast your pearls before swine<\/strong> -If someone asks a five cent question, refrain from giving them a ten dollar answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do not answer a fool according to his folly,or you will be like him yourself.\u2026Answer a fool according to his folly,or he will be wise in his own eyes. Proverbs 26: 4-5 (NIV) 1. Pray -that you have the wisdom to respond with grace to a biting question and the discretion to know when to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-grind","clearfix","post-index"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/corbinrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/pexels-photo-4246243-1.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbinrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbinrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbinrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbinrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbinrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corbinrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbinrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbinrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbinrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbinrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}