{"id":649,"date":"2019-01-14T16:46:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T21:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/?p=649"},"modified":"2021-04-19T16:01:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T20:01:04","slug":"public-apologies-made-easy-the-notes-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/public-apologies-made-easy-the-notes-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Apologies Made Easy: the Notes App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times published a fun article this weekend on the latest format used by celebrities for their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/12\/style\/notes-app-celebrity-statements.html\">apologies: the Notes app<\/a> in the iPhone. Apparently part of their appeal is that they look spontaneous and personal, as opposed to the clumsy &#8220;formal apology&#8221; that was obviously written by a handler. They are also easy to post and publish. Since there seems to be no end of things for which celebrities (feel they) need to apologize, I guess it&#8217;s a good thing to find more expeditious formats to use.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite part of the article is its summary of what needs to be in a good apology:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;The best Notes app statements follow the same guiding principles of any good apology: get in and get out; be direct; don\u2019t try too hard to defend yourself; and (this is a bonus!) maybe say what you\u2019re doing moving forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, skip the Word.doc. Start dictating in Notes. But don&#8217;t forget to proofread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times published a fun article this weekend on the latest format used by celebrities for their apologies: the Notes app in the iPhone. Apparently part of their appeal is that they look spontaneous and personal, as opposed to the clumsy &#8220;formal apology&#8221; that was obviously written by a handler. They are also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}