{"id":3852,"date":"2012-02-10T15:53:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T20:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/wp\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2012-02-10T15:53:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T20:53:03","slug":"critical_feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/critical_feedback\/","title":{"rendered":"critical feedback"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Critical feedback should be a) actionable b) motivating. &#10;&#10;b-only: you&#39;re a cheerleader.&#10;a-only: you&#39;re a critic.&#10;neither: you&#39;re a dick.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; jgehtland (@jgehtland) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jgehtland\/statuses\/167991453090463744\">February 10, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nSeeing this in my Twitter stream just now was a very helpful kick in the butt as I&#8217;ve been avoiding finishing an email for months now to a friend who&#8217;s asked me what I think about his first novel, for fear of being a dick.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m torn between being completely honest, as he&#8217;s asked me to be\u2014and as friends and employers know to expect whenever they ask for my opinion on something\u2014and knowing there&#8217;s nothing to be done about the things I disliked even if I convince him of my POV because it&#8217;s already printed and comes out soon. I loved the book, so why be a dick? His argument is it&#8217;ll be something to consider for the next novel, but my inner Admiral Ackbar says this is a trap. What to do?<br \/>\n[ via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/amishrobot\/\">amishrobot<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critical feedback should be a) actionable b) motivating. &#10;&#10;b-only: you&#39;re a cheerleader.&#10;a-only: you&#39;re a critic.&#10;neither: you&#39;re a dick. &mdash; jgehtland (@jgehtland) February 10, 2012 Seeing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lliiaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}