{"id":31449,"date":"2013-08-05T09:27:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T13:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=31449"},"modified":"2013-08-05T23:31:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T03:31:53","slug":"you-dont-need-a-pretense-to-contact-me-or-tell-me-your-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/you-dont-need-a-pretense-to-contact-me-or-tell-me-your-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"You don&#8217;t need a pretense to tell me your thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of a friend just texted me &#8220;by mistake&#8221; giving me personal info he later said was meant for someone else. I knew two hours before he texted me that he was going to do it. \u00a0He&#8217;s not hitting on me. If I ask him about it, he&#8217;ll say it was a mistake. \u00a0My thought is he wanted to toss a phrase\/word\/topic out and have me offer my thoughts, without taking responsibility for having &#8220;really&#8221; initiated the conversation. But INiTiATiON is a tricky thing and will not be bypassed. I know this. He knows this. Clever pretense simply reveals to me another side of him. <em>\u00a0Note: You don&#8217;t need a pretense to contact me or tell me your thoughts. Just do it. It&#8217;s cool.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/you-dont-need-a-pretense-to-contact-me-or-tell-me-your-thoughts\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=You don&#8217;t need a pretense to tell me your thoughts&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/you-dont-need-a-pretense-to-contact-me-or-tell-me-your-thoughts\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/you-dont-need-a-pretense-to-contact-me-or-tell-me-your-thoughts\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/you-dont-need-a-pretense-to-contact-me-or-tell-me-your-thoughts\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=You%20don&#8217;t%20need%20a%20pretense%20to%20tell%20me%20your%20thoughts&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/you-dont-need-a-pretense-to-contact-me-or-tell-me-your-thoughts\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of a friend just texted me &#8220;by mistake&#8221; giving me personal info he later said was meant for someone else. I knew two hours before he texted me that he was going to do it. \u00a0He&#8217;s not hitting on me. If I ask him about it, he&#8217;ll say it was a mistake. \u00a0My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31449"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31464,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31449\/revisions\/31464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}