{"id":2558,"date":"2019-07-15T07:45:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T12:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/?p=2558"},"modified":"2019-07-15T07:46:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T12:16:47","slug":"civility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/07-15-2019\/civility\/","title":{"rendered":"Civility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>People being rude seems to have gotten worse in recent years, but it is far from a new problem. The idea that self comes before others has been around for a long time, but it being accepted more and more as the norm. This shouldn&#8217;t be the case, and, as Steven Michael Selzer conveys in <em>Civility<\/em>, there are simple ways to combat it.<\/p> <p>The book takes George Washington&#8217;s rules for being civil and updates them to match today&#8217;s problems. There are still some that will not apply today as they once did, but the underlying message of treating others with respect still applies. Showing each other respect would go a long way towards bettering relations with those around us.<\/p> <p>I can see some people having a problem with a few of the rules, but that is mainly due to them thinking these are too strict. The book is definitely thought-provoking. There were a few that set me on edge at first, but then I realized that I was aggravated because I would have to set me aside.<\/p> <p><em>Civility <\/em>is easy to read and interesting, but not exactly what I had expected. Several times, the humor was wooden and seemed forced, like it was an afterthought. I know the book isn&#8217;t meant to be comedy, but it would have been better if the humor flowed better, or was left out. Even with that, I found plenty of things to think about.<\/p> <p>I received a complimentary copy from the publisher through NetGalley. All opinions are my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People being rude seems to have gotten worse in recent years, but it is far from a new problem. The idea that self comes before others has been around for a long time, but it being accepted more and more as the norm. This shouldn&#8217;t be the case, and, as Steven Michael Selzer conveys in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2561,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions\/2561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}