{"id":1166,"date":"2015-11-23T16:19:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T21:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youneedchiro.com\/blog\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2015-11-23T16:24:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T21:24:55","slug":"cliches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youneedchiro.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/23\/cliches\/","title":{"rendered":"Clich\u00e9s"},"content":{"rendered":"

We adults often take pause to chuckle at how much we find ourselves sounding like our parents, especially considering what they sounded like to us when we were the \u201cyounger generation.\u201d Expressions like, \u201cIs it the holiday season again, already?\u201d and \u201cTime flies when you’re having fun\u201d sound trite and suggest that perhaps we don\u2019t have anything better to say or lack imagination. But there is another possible side to the use of clich\u00e9s, could it be that they just happen to fit the situation so very well?
\nFor example, here we are in Thanksgiving week and I feel just a little self-conscious as I wish a \u201cHappy Thanksgiving\u201d to each practice member as he or she is preparing to leave the office today. It\u2019s not any lack of sincerity, just the repetitive, almost obligatory sound of it. \"thankful\"<\/a>I sometimes wonder about that kind of thing when you pass someone on the street who asks, \u201cHow are you?\u201d without pausing for or slowing down long enough to possibly receive a response. Do we just feel obliged to make the inquiry without wanting a response, as if failure to do so is a snub or slight? It seems strange that we have such tangled, complex social behaviors, doesn\u2019t it? Yet there is a distinct difference between the insincere clich\u00e9 that fits a certain hollow circumstance and the meaningful, heartfelt wishes that an appreciative moment of Thanksgiving brings.
\nI\u2019m sure that many others have had these thoughts and while they even border on being tired expressions themselves, it seems useful to mention it because our words can be powerful things and perhaps we should pause occasionally to think about them. From that spirit please accept these wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving.
\nDue to holiday travel, office hours will be shortened this week:
\nMonday 8:30-5:00 Tuesday 1:00-8:00 Wednesday 8:30-5:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We adults often take pause to chuckle at how much we find ourselves sounding like our parents, especially considering what they sounded like to us when we were the \u201cyounger generation.\u201d Expressions like, \u201cIs it the holiday season again, already?\u201d … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[149,148],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cliche","tag-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youneedchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youneedchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youneedchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youneedchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youneedchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.youneedchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/www.youneedchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youneedchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youneedchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youneedchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}