{"id":2196,"date":"2009-11-12T01:17:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T06:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2196"},"modified":"2009-11-12T01:17:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T06:17:52","slug":"reposton-trustthanks-matt-for-listening-scripting-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/12\/reposton-trustthanks-matt-for-listening-scripting-news\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:On Trust:Thanks Matt for listening&#8230; (Scripting News)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There isn&#8217;t enough trust in the world, imho. People can&#8217;t tell, or don&#8217;t take the time to find out, if someone is trustworthy. The other day I asked this question of an editor at a major newspaper &#8212; why don&#8217;t you trust your readers? I ask this of Apple, why don&#8217;t you trust your users? What about the government, why doesn&#8217;t it trust its citizens? Ultimately all these institutions must listen to the people they serve. The news and tech industries, even governments &#8212; will eventually listen.<br \/>\n<strong>The reason people are reluctant: If you extend trust, sometimes you&#8217;re going to get burned. And if you never trust anyone, you&#8217;ll never be hurt. But you won&#8217;t have much of a life. So you have to develop a sense of who and what you can depend on.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\/stories\/2009\/11\/11\/thanksMattForListening.html\">Thanks Matt for listening&#8230; (Scripting News)<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This paragraph really hit me hard. It made me ask the question are you someone you would trust? I am not ok with my answer to that question!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There isn&#8217;t enough trust in the world, imho. People can&#8217;t tell, or don&#8217;t take the time to find out, if someone is trustworthy. The other day I asked this question of an editor at a major newspaper &#8212; why don&#8217;t you trust your readers? I ask this of Apple, why don&#8217;t you trust your users? &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/12\/reposton-trustthanks-matt-for-listening-scripting-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost:On Trust:Thanks Matt for listening&#8230; (Scripting News)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}