{"id":900,"date":"2006-06-27T09:24:38","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T09:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/talking_points\/"},"modified":"2006-06-27T09:24:38","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T09:24:38","slug":"talking_points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/talking_points\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the land of corporate America talking points can be important.&nbsp; Whether the speaker knows or believes in what they&#8217;re saying is another matter altogether.&nbsp; This <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB115141081248591786.html?mod=home_whats_news_us\">announcement<\/a> from today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal illustrates my point.&nbsp; Don&#8217;t get me wrong, maybe they know and believe.&nbsp; But does anyone really communicate like this?&nbsp; I guess so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>No matter your age or experience, start speaking what you know and what you believe.&nbsp; I know it might get you in trouble.&nbsp; &nbsp;I know some people will think you&#8217;re strange for going against the tide.&nbsp; I also know that every pretender has a date with the &quot;mirror.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the land of corporate America talking points can be important.&nbsp; Whether the speaker knows or believes in what they&#8217;re saying is another matter altogether.&nbsp; This announcement from today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal illustrates my point.&nbsp; Don&#8217;t get me wrong, maybe they know and believe.&nbsp; But does anyone really communicate like this?&nbsp; I guess so&#8230; No&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","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=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}