{"id":117,"date":"2024-08-23T06:36:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T06:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/08\/23\/third-things-can-make-communication-easier\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T06:36:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T06:36:46","slug":"third-things-can-make-communication-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/08\/23\/third-things-can-make-communication-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThird Things\u201d Can Make Communication Easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Palmer believes that the soul is shy and that asking another person to immediately share something very vulnerable can scare them off. Connecting while engaged in third things is a gentler way to communicate.<\/p>\n<p>Many people have fond memories of special conversations that transpired while they were doing the dishes with a parent or going fishing with a friend. This third thing they do together makes it easy and comfortable for them to converse more deeply, often without even making eye contact.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the best conversations I have with my kids are facilitated by third things: watching a movie, playing video games, kicking a soccer ball around, playing mini golf, or running errands in the car. Conversation is no different that any other activity (like, say, shooting free throws or dancing): it\u2019s much easier and open when you\u2019re not actually thinking too hard about it.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/24\/08\/third-things-can-make-communication-easier\">kottke.org\/24\/08\/third-things-can-make-communication-easier<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palmer believes that the soul is shy and that asking another person to immediately share something very vulnerable can scare them off. Connecting while engaged in third things is a gentler way to communicate. Many people have fond memories of special conversations that transpired while they were doing the dishes with a parent or going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}