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More convicting questions from Mitchell\u2019s helpful book, Resisting Gossip.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cBefore you talk (or before you continue to talk) about someone who is not present, ask yourself the following: <\/blockquote>\n
\u2022 Would I say this if he were here? (Really? Be honest now.) <\/blockquote>\n
\u2022 Would I receive this bad news about her in the same way if she were present? <\/blockquote>\n
\u2022 Am I hiding this conversation from someone? <\/blockquote>\n
\u2022 Would I want someone else to talk this way about me if I were out of the room?\u201d (Kindle Loc 397)<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More convicting questions from Mitchell\u2019s helpful book, Resisting Gossip. \u201cBefore you talk (or before you continue to talk) about someone who is not present, ask yourself the following: \u2022 Would I say this if he were here? (Really? Be honest … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-counseling-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s34kFn-gossip","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9909,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908\/revisions\/9909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}