{"id":1554,"date":"2023-04-06T19:31:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T01:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2023-04-06T19:31:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T01:31:16","slug":"water-horse-%e2%89%a0-horse-drinking-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/06\/water-horse-%e2%89%a0-horse-drinking-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Water + Horse \u2260 Horse drinking water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The saying is of course &#8220;You can lead a horse to water but you cannot are it drink&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that applies in many contexts<br>You can show a person a solution to a problem but they&#8217;ll still refuse it &#8211; for whatever reason they have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes the real saying that should be applied is &#8220;You can only help someone if they want help&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, despite seeming to ask for it, when they get an offer of help that isnt EXACTLY what they wanted they&#8217;ll refuse the help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then what do you do bug shrug and say &#8220;I tried&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The saying is of course &#8220;You can lead a horse to water but you cannot are it drink&#8221; And that applies in many contextsYou can show a person a solution to a problem but they&#8217;ll still refuse it &#8211; for whatever reason they have. Sometimes the real saying that should be applied is &#8220;You can &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/06\/water-horse-%e2%89%a0-horse-drinking-water\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Water + Horse \u2260 Horse drinking water&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1555,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions\/1555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}