{"id":436,"date":"2014-09-25T21:52:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T06:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=436"},"modified":"2014-09-26T02:04:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T11:04:33","slug":"sept-25-an-accident-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"Sept. 25 &#8211; An Accident of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Sept. 25 &#8211; An Accident of Time\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=436\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/clock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-437\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/clock.jpg\" alt=\"clock\" width=\"199\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I had to be out of the office for health system related reasons.\u00a0 When I returned I found that several people had tried to contact me by voice mail or email and were surprised I could not be reached.\u00a0 As I contacted them to let them know I was just receiving their message and that I had been out of the building, each one understood my absence.\u00a0 There was also another recurring thread in their responses.\u00a0 That thread was that I am usually to easily reached it surprised them when I did not respond promptly.\u00a0 Until this event happened I had not realized what a reputation I had built of being prompt in responding to messages and emails.<\/p>\n<p>I am intentionally prompt to show people I care about them.\u00a0 It was affirming to see that people notice it and value it, even though it took my not being available to prompt them to share their feelings.\u00a0 My learning from today: <strong>\u201cMake people a priority, they will notice, and they will appreciate it\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I had to be out of the office for health system related reasons.\u00a0 When I returned I found that several people had tried to contact me by voice mail or email and were surprised I could not be reached.\u00a0 As I contacted them to let them know I was just receiving their message and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=436\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sept. 25 &#8211; An Accident of Time<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}