{"id":787,"date":"2006-12-05T11:12:54","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T19:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2006\/12\/05\/humility-smackdown\/"},"modified":"2006-12-05T11:12:54","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T19:12:54","slug":"humility-smackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/12\/05\/humility-smackdown","title":{"rendered":"Humility Smackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/curtharlow.com\/\">Curt Har\u00adlow<\/a> just found out that I have pub\u00adlicly called myself the world\u2019s #1 speak\u00ader on the sub\u00adject of humil\u00adi\u00adty.<\/p>\n<p>In case you were unaware, that\u2019s Curt\u2019s tagline. He prob\u00ada\u00adbly even has it tat\u00adtooed in an indel\u00adi\u00adcate place.<\/p>\n<p>So he called me up, \u201cGlen, you are not the world\u2019s num\u00adber one speak\u00ader on the sub\u00adject of humil\u00adi\u00adty and you know it. That\u2019s my schtick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I believe my reply can best be sum\u00adma\u00adrized as \u201cneen\u00ader-neen\u00ader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So we have four options:<br>\n1) We can each humbly agree that the oth\u00ader per\u00adson is right. This option is appeal\u00ading, but I just can\u2019t see Curt going for it.<br>\n2) I can apol\u00ado\u00adgize for steal\u00ading his joke and print up busi\u00adness cards for him pro\u00adclaim\u00ading his hum\u00adble sta\u00adtus. I\u2019m sure Curt would pre\u00adfer this solu\u00adtion, but he real\u00adly set him\u00adself up to be knocked when he start\u00aded the joke. Jokes are made to be expand\u00aded, refract\u00aded, and revised.<br>\n3) We can rum\u00adble. Curt\u2019s big\u00adger than me, so I don\u2019t plan to pur\u00adsue this course of action.<br>\n4) I can call myself the world\u2019s num\u00adber two speak\u00ader on the sub\u00adject of humil\u00adi\u00adty in a tone of voice that implies I know that makes me more hum\u00adble than the num\u00adber one guy.<\/p>\n<p>And so I choose option num\u00adber 4. I am clear\u00adly the world\u2019s num\u00adber TWO speak\u00ader on the sub\u00adject of humil\u00adi\u00adty and I am hum\u00adble enough to be con\u00adtent with that rank\u00ading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curt Har\u00adlow just found out that I have pub\u00adlicly called myself the world\u2019s #1 speak\u00ader on the sub\u00adject of humil\u00adi\u00adty. In case you were unaware, that\u2019s Curt\u2019s tagline. He prob\u00ada\u00adbly even has it tat\u00adtooed in an indel\u00adi\u00adcate place. So he called me up, \u201cGlen, you are not the world\u2019s num\u00adber one speak\u00ader on the sub\u00adject \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/12\/05\/humility-smackdown\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cHumil\u00adi\u00adty Smack\u00addown\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-cH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}