{"id":3801,"date":"2018-10-05T14:24:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T21:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=3801"},"modified":"2018-10-05T14:24:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T21:24:40","slug":"how-to-write-a-hard-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2018\/how-to-write-a-hard-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Write a Hard Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"

The current issue of World magazine<\/a> arrived in our mail today. I looked at the photos on the table of contents page, matching them up to their articles. Then I looked at the two-page spread with photos and quotes and stuff. Then I looked at the two articles in the back.<\/p>\n

The last article didn’t interest me enough to read it. (Sorry, Marvin!)<\/p>\n

But the next-to-the-last article (yes, I’m a Seu fan, I confess), I read. Until I got to this line: <\/p>\n

You will do well if you write your next hard letter that way too.<\/div>\n

I read no further. (She wrote no further; what’s a reader to do?!)<\/p>\n

\"Dear<\/p>\n

Hmmm. I’ve had to write some hard things of late, so the article really connected for me. I’ll have to reread it. Twice at least. Not because I read some principle or concept I’d never thought of before. But I read some very good reminders.<\/p>\n

OK, so I gave you the last line of the article. Here’s the subtitle:<\/p>\n

Paul\u2019s epistle on behalf of Onesimus is a model for letter-writers<\/div>\n

Be sure to read what lies between those two lines: Dear Philemon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As for me, I’ve got to make some adjustments (if not deletions and additions) to something I wrote early this morning…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tips and illustrations for composing a difficult email, SMS, blog, tweet, or status update…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12,534],"tags":[515,894,880,800,949],"class_list":["post-3801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-lessons-for-living","category-todays-thought","tag-encouragement","tag-inspirational","tag-life-lessons","tag-relationships","tag-social-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-Zj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}