{"id":103,"date":"2013-08-02T09:06:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T09:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/managing-relationships\/"},"modified":"2013-08-02T09:06:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T09:06:16","slug":"managing-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/managing-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miles_Davis\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Miles Davis\">Miles Davis<\/a>. Whenever I meet someone who likes Miles Davis, I feel an immediate connection. This feels great. Then I meet someone who likes <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kenny_Chesney\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Kenny Chesney\">Kenny Chesney<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This post is about managing relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Some people are just different than you and I. They were wired differently for a purpose. A purpose maybe unknown. We have to apply ourselves to give understanding, patience and grace.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>The person who loves Kenny, will probably never like Miles. Trying to change that is a waste of valuable time.<\/p>\n<fieldset class=\"zemanta-related\">\n<legend class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/legend>\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/epic_living\/2013\/05\/building-and-managing-trust.html\" style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/167044442_80_80.jpg\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/epic_living\/2013\/05\/building-and-managing-trust.html\" style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\" target=\"_blank\">Building and Managing Trust<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/illinois\/alton-to-erect-statue-of-miles-davis\/article_3fbfbefd-e907-5747-98c9-8310b86bea07.html\" style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/188234362_80_80.jpg\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/illinois\/alton-to-erect-statue-of-miles-davis\/article_3fbfbefd-e907-5747-98c9-8310b86bea07.html\" style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\" target=\"_blank\">Alton to erect statue of Miles Davis<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like Miles Davis. Whenever I meet someone who likes Miles Davis, I feel an immediate connection. This feels great. Then I meet someone who likes Kenny Chesney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,54,7],"tags":[76,142,141,139,137,136,138,102,93,140],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching","category-learning","category-life-perspectives","category-wellbeing","tag-art","tag-friendship","tag-grace","tag-kenny-chesney","tag-managing","tag-managing-relationships","tag-miles-davis","tag-music-2","tag-relationships-2","tag-understanding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}