{"id":2353,"date":"2011-11-17T18:46:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T23:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2011-12-22T06:59:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T11:59:17","slug":"ten-rules-for-dealing-with-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2011\/11\/ten-rules-for-dealing-with-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten rules for dealing with crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. If you don’t have to deal with a crazy person, don’t.<\/li>\n
  2. You can’t outsmart crazy. You also can’t fix crazy. (You could outcrazy it, but that makes you crazy too.)<\/li>\n
  3. When you get in a contest of wills with a crazy person, you’ve already lost.<\/li>\n
  4. The crazy person doesn’t have as much to lose as you.<\/li>\n
  5. Your desired outcome is to get away from the crazy person.<\/li>\n
  6. You have no idea what the crazy person’s desired outcome is.<\/li>\n
  7. The crazy person sees anything you have done as justification for what she’s about to do.<\/li>\n
  8. Anything nice you do for the crazy person, she will use as ammunition later.<\/li>\n
  9. The crazy person sees any outcome as vindication.<\/li>\n
  10. When you start caring what the crazy person thinks, you’re joining her in her craziness.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If you don’t have to deal with a crazy person, don’t. You can’t outsmart crazy. You also can’t fix crazy. (You could outcrazy it, but that makes you crazy too.) When you get in a contest of wills with a crazy person, you’ve already lost. The crazy person doesn’t have as much to lose as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nablopomo-2011","category-office-space","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}