{"id":340,"date":"2009-04-18T14:17:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T19:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/2009\/04\/18\/someone-else-can-pet-and-stroke-these-monsters-who-stomp-and-preen\/"},"modified":"2009-04-18T14:17:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T19:17:02","slug":"someone-else-can-pet-and-stroke-these-monsters-who-stomp-and-preen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/2009\/04\/18\/someone-else-can-pet-and-stroke-these-monsters-who-stomp-and-preen\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone else can pet and stroke these monsters who stomp and preen&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I regret my job requires me to deal with so many big egos, people who are so self-involved and self-aggrandizing they&#8217;ve forgotten courtesy and civility. They see the world only in hierarchical terms &#8212; who matters, who doesn&#8217;t, who&#8217;s in, who&#8217;s out. I can&#8217;t quit. Not in this economy, but someday soon I&#8217;m out. Someone else can pet and stroke these monsters who stomp and preen and whose insecurities and appetites for flattery are never calmed or satisfied.<\/p>\n<p>Submitted by: AG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I regret my job requires me to deal with so many big egos, people who are so self-involved and self-aggrandizing they&#8217;ve forgotten courtesy and civility. They see the world only in hierarchical terms &#8212; who matters, who doesn&#8217;t, who&#8217;s in, who&#8217;s out. I can&#8217;t quit. Not in this economy, but someday soon I&#8217;m out. Someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employersemployees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}