{"id":5610,"date":"2025-02-05T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackaby.net\/members\/?p=5610"},"modified":"2025-02-05T21:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T02:10:06","slug":"dont-curse-the-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/2025\/02\/05\/dont-curse-the-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Curse the King!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Complaining rarely accomplishes much good. Whining and criticizing achieves even less. In fact, complaining can bring you much harm.<\/p>\n<p>Be extremely careful where you voice your complaints. Our words have a way of finding their way to the &#8220;wrong&#8221; people! We may think we were having a private conversation when we were complaining about our boss to a colleague, but we can discover, to our great dismay, that those harsh words traveled all the way to the corner office.<\/p>\n<p>Many leaders have experienced turbulence and even dismissal because of words carelessly spoken. Never assume that your comments are &#8220;confidential.&#8221; Once they leave your mouth, they have a life of their own. They can find their way to the most embarrassing and harmful places.<\/p>\n<p>Before you speak, ask yourself the simple question: &#8220;Would I want my boss to hear what I am saying?&#8221; If not. Perhaps you should keep your thoughts to yourself. Or, better yet, maybe you should change your attitude altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do not curse the king, even in your thought; do not curse the rich, even in your bedroom; for a bird of the air may carry your voice, and a bird in flight may tell the matter.    Ecclesiastes 10:20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotionals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13918,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions\/13918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}