{"id":1300,"date":"2022-05-29T20:47:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T20:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2022-05-29T20:48:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T20:48:59","slug":"must","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1300","title":{"rendered":"Must"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019m noticing I have started to have a visceral reaction to reading phrases like \u201cin order to address the problem, we <em>must<\/em> do \u2026\u201d or \u201cthe [govenment|business leaders|the public] <em>must<\/em> [change|fix|\u2026]\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group or person to whom this imperative is addressed hasn\u2019t done anything like what they\u2019re being instructed to do thus far for a variety of reasons (even if, perhaps especially if, the group being addressed is \u201cus\u201d).  Perhaps that\u2019s because they have a vested interest in the status quo.  Perhaps because they don\u2019t see the issue the writer has identified as a problem.  Perhaps they just can\u2019t be bothered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever.  A strident \u201cmust\u201d demand isn\u2019t going to get you where you want to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m noticing I have started to have a visceral reaction to reading phrases like \u201cin order to address the problem, we must do \u2026\u201d or \u201cthe [govenment|business leaders|the public] must [change|fix|\u2026]\u201d. The group or person to whom this imperative is addressed hasn\u2019t done anything like what they\u2019re being instructed to do thus far for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}