{"id":458,"date":"2005-09-14T09:56:42","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T14:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=458"},"modified":"2005-09-14T09:56:42","modified_gmt":"2005-09-14T14:56:42","slug":"why-its-bad-to-ask-for-help-and-other-fables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"Why It&#8217;s Bad to Ask for Help (and Other Fables)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my friends raised heck with me last week for not asking for help from friends, especially with house-related tasks, like the installation of the screen door, for instance.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nWell, events of yesterday point out some of the reasons why.<br \/>\nIf you hire a contractor, and there&#8217;s a schedule screw-up, usually people don&#8217;t get bent out of shape, they just apologize, and go forward.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s different if you ask for help from a friend.  If things get off track, then you have multiple people annoyed with you.<br \/>\nAdd family to that, and it&#8217;s a double-bogey.<br \/>\nI THOUGHT a friend of a friend was going to stop by #11 to do some electrical work.  I THOUGHT this was all happening in the afternoon.  Turns out, I was wrong on the timing.<br \/>\nOh, well, apologies to all.<br \/>\nBe that as it may, I had a great day, most of which I spent in Providence.  Seems I always have a good time in that city, even though it&#8217;s a tough one to navigate unless you know it pretty well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my friends raised heck with me last week for not asking for help from friends, especially with house-related tasks, like the installation of the screen door, for instance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}