{"id":15876,"date":"2014-12-22T08:37:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T13:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/?p=15876"},"modified":"2014-12-22T08:40:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T13:40:02","slug":"action-principles-allow-your-opponent-to-save-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/blog\/action-principles-allow-your-opponent-to-save-face\/","title":{"rendered":"ACTION PRINCIPLES &#8211; Allow Your Opponent to Save Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/action.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14573 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/action.jpg\" alt=\"action\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/action.jpg 200w, http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/action-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Allow Your Opponent to Save Face<\/h2>\n<p>In business, sports or everyday relationships, always allow your opponent to save face.<\/p>\n<p>You won. That should be enough. Bragging is counterproductive.<\/p>\n<p>Winning provides you with the opportunity to show both mercy and humility. You won\u2019t always win, but you can always do what you believe to be right to win or lose.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Bill FitzPatrick is a 5th-degree Black Belt, holds a Master\u2019s Degree in Education and runs the non-profit American Success Institute<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allow Your Opponent to Save Face In business, sports or everyday relationships, always allow your opponent to save face. You won. That should be enough. Bragging is counterproductive. Winning provides you with the opportunity to show both mercy and humility. You won\u2019t always win, but you can always do what you believe to be right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1350,"featured_media":14573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kickin-program"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 20:15:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/napmamembers.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}