{"id":2178,"date":"2015-12-19T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2015-12-21T20:49:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T04:49:12","slug":"tooting-your-own-horn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2178","title":{"rendered":"Tooting Your Own Horn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo think: I did all that&#8230;\u201d a fragment from Frank Sinatra\u2019s theme song, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/My_Way\">My Way<\/a>. A little of this\u2014maybe 7 &#8211; 12%\u2014is good. More begins to become sort of \u201cnarcis-sistic.\u201d Less is too deferential. More is tiresome for others; 20% is annoying; and if you toot your own horn at 30% or more you become obnoxious! This fits my thinking that there are optimal amounts for many\u2014perhaps almost all\u2014qualities. How much courtesy becomes cloying and self-defeating? Maybe it depends on an unconscious assessment on the social network. If you\u2019re among robbers, you don\u2019t want to show how generous you are. Things are changing in my thoughts. What were compelling attractions often lose their power of attraction, become less important<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo think: I did all that&#8230;\u201d a fragment from Frank Sinatra\u2019s theme song, My Way. A little of this\u2014maybe 7 &#8211; 12%\u2014is good. More begins to become sort of \u201cnarcis-sistic.\u201d Less is too deferential. More is tiresome for others; 20% is annoying; and if you toot your own horn at 30% or more you become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,35,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-mind-spectrums","category-literacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2179,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions\/2179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}