{"id":681,"date":"2019-03-23T15:59:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T19:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/?p=681"},"modified":"2021-04-19T16:01:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T20:01:04","slug":"stop-apologizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/stop-apologizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Apologizing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow-on to yesterday&#8217;s post about a speaker who tells women to stop saying they&#8217;re sorry, now there&#8217;s a book with a similarly arresting title, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Girl-Stop-Apologizing-Shame-Free-Embracing\/dp\/1400209609\">Girl, Stop Apologizing.&#8221;<\/a> Like Speaker Maya Janovic, Author Rachel Hollis isn&#8217;t really telling people\/women\/girls not to take responsibility for wrongs done to others; instead, she&#8217;s trying to empower women who lack confidence by telling them, &#8220;Stop apologizing for who you are. It&#8217;s time to become who you were made to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As women heed these experts&#8217; advice and stop apologizing for their deficiencies, I hope they don&#8217;t stop making apologies altogether. Apologies grease the wheels of human interaction; there&#8217;s no need to stop <em>all<\/em> apologizing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow-on to yesterday&#8217;s post about a speaker who tells women to stop saying they&#8217;re sorry, now there&#8217;s a book with a similarly arresting title, &#8220;Girl, Stop Apologizing.&#8221; Like Speaker Maya Janovic, Author Rachel Hollis isn&#8217;t really telling people\/women\/girls not to take responsibility for wrongs done to others; instead, she&#8217;s trying to empower women [&hellip;]<\/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-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}