{"id":41,"date":"2012-01-09T17:34:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T00:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irascibles.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2012-01-09T17:34:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T00:34:09","slug":"not-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irascibles.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Not A Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recall reading a column about this subject, so I claim no creative rights to the idea, however I was infected by this observation and can not quite shake it, its become that song that will not go away.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the setup, I go to a store I buy something that requires some interaction between me and a sales person, we finish the transaction I say thank you and the person responds &#8220;Not a problem&#8221;. Now I scratch my head and think &#8220;uh yea I bet it was not a problem, isn&#8217;t this your job?&#8217;. Not quite sure how this phrase seeped its way into the vernacular, but I hate it. What does &#8220;not a problem&#8221; actually mean? It was easy to help you? Was it not problematic so therefore be on your way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recall reading a column about this subject, so I claim no creative rights to the idea, however I was infected by this observation and can not quite shake it, its become that song that will not go away. Here is the setup, I go to a store I buy something that requires some interaction &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irascibles.com\/?p=41\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not A Problem<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irascibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irascibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irascibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irascibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irascibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.irascibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irascibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irascibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irascibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}