{"id":10303,"date":"2014-10-01T20:27:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T10:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=10303"},"modified":"2024-07-05T00:43:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T14:43:21","slug":"you-cannot-explain-a-giraffe-decision-to-a-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=10303","title":{"rendered":"You Cannot Explain a Giraffe Decision to a Turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/GiraffeDecision.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-10304\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/GiraffeDecision-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"You Cannot Explain a Giraffe Decision to a Turtle\" width=\"673\" height=\"473\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGiraffes and Turtles&#8211;they occupy the same space, but they don&#8217;t share the same view.<br \/>\nThe giraffe can be in the same geographical location as the turtle, but the giraffe eats from the tops of the trees, and the turtle moves through the grass.<br \/>\nWhat ultimately happens in the lives of people is that &#8220;We eat on the level of our vision&#8221;.<br \/>\nWhen you are a giraffe and you get criticism from turtles, the turtles are reporting the view from the level they&#8217;re on. If you understand this, you won&#8217;t be moved by what the turtles say. &#8211;T.D. Jakes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giraffes and Turtles&#8211;they occupy the same space, but they don&#8217;t share the same view. The giraffe can be in the same geographical location as the turtle, but the giraffe eats from the tops of the trees, and the turtle moves through the grass. What ultimately happens in the lives of people is that &#8220;We eat &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=10303\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You Cannot Explain a Giraffe Decision to a Turtle&#8221;<\/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":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54098,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303\/revisions\/54098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}