{"id":42065,"date":"2020-05-13T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=42065"},"modified":"2020-05-12T07:57:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T11:57:06","slug":"qotd-compliments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/05\/13\/qotd-compliments\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Compliments"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Don&#8217;t just pay people compliments; give them living eulogies. Tell them exactly how great they are, in how many ways. Embarrass them. Here&#8217;s a funny thing I have learned by being just a little bit internet famous: it doesn&#8217;t matter how many times you hear them, the words &#8220;You are amazing, and here&#8217;s why&#8221; <em>never get old<\/em>. They do not go out of style. You will be wearing them to your 80th birthday party, along with a dazzling smile.<\/p>\n<p>Megan McArdle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2018-01-30\/megan-mcardle-s-12-rules-for-life\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;After 45 Birthdays, Here Are &#8217;12 Rules for Life'&#8221;, <em>Bloomberg View<\/em><\/a>, 2018-01-30.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t just pay people compliments; give them living eulogies. Tell them exactly how great they are, in how many ways. Embarrass them. Here&#8217;s a funny thing I have learned by being just a little bit internet famous: it doesn&#8217;t matter how many times you hear them, the words &#8220;You are amazing, and here&#8217;s why&#8221; never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,73],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-42065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotations","category-randomness","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aWt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57109,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42065\/revisions\/57109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}