{"id":739,"date":"2015-03-03T22:36:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T07:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=739"},"modified":"2015-03-04T02:53:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T11:53:45","slug":"mar-3-courtesy-is-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=739","title":{"rendered":"Mar. 3 – Courtesy Is King"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Every day at work I try to practice courtesy in all of my encounters.\u00a0 Since I am an upbeat person this comes naturally to me.\u00a0 It is also part of the culture that is nurtured in our hospital.\u00a0 I wish I could say being courteous is always<\/strong> easy!\u00a0 Sometimes I see or hear something that is against what I believe is proper and would love to \u201cspeak my mind\u201d.\u00a0 When this happens before I speak I silently ask myself, \u201cIs what I am thinking really the proper thing to say at this moment?\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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I found myself wanting to respond in less than a courteous manner two times today.\u00a0 I probably would have done so had it not been for the culture of courtesy that is promoted in our hospital.\u00a0 Being courteous keeps the dialogue open and creates the opportunity for honest sharing.\u00a0 When courtesy is absent in an encounter, people \u201chold back\u201d talking to strangers.\u00a0 Since many people I meet every day are strangers to me, I have to present myself in a manner that allows them to feel safe engaging in conversation with me.<\/p>\n

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Though courtesy is not nearly as obvious a spiritual discipline as prayer, if I ever want to have the chance to pray with someone, I have to show them I am courteous first.\u00a0 If I don\u2019t the opportunity for prayer may never happen.<\/p>\n

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  Every day at work I try to practice courtesy in all of my encounters.\u00a0 Since I am an upbeat person this comes naturally to me.\u00a0 It is also part of the culture that is nurtured in our hospital.\u00a0 I wish I could say being courteous is always easy!\u00a0 Sometimes I see or hear something … Continue reading Mar. 3 – Courtesy Is King<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","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=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}