{"id":4226,"date":"2019-02-08T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=4226"},"modified":"2019-02-08T08:00:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T13:00:48","slug":"fave-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=4226","title":{"rendered":"What’s Your Favorite Color?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Lorin Brice Hall<\/em><\/p>\n

What\u2019s your favorite color? This is such a common question. Everyone asks everyone\u00a0<\/span>this question. People ask it on dates, in random conversation, over text or whenever. It\u2019s a\u00a0<\/span>question that doesn\u2019t mean anything. It means nothing. It is a silence-killer. It is a sign that you\u00a0<\/span>want to keep talking to the other person, but you don\u2019t know what to say to them. Also people\u00a0<\/span>don\u2019t really care what the answer is. Do you really care about whatever color that someone else thinks is best? Is that something that is critical to who they are? Is it something you will\u00a0<\/span>remember?<\/span><\/p>\n

But imagine if you did care about whatever color was someone’s favorite. You would then\u00a0<\/span>ask that person why that’s their favorite color, and you would learn something. Maybe yellow is Sue\u2019s favorite color because it just feels naturally happy, and Sue hasn\u2019t felt really happy in a long time, and yellow helps makes them feel good. Maybe Hank likes baby blue because that was the color of his Mom\u2019s apron and he loves his Mom. Maybe Juan\u2019s love of green stems from the nature walks his sister would take him on and he\u2019s loved green since then. People don\u2019t really arbitrarily have a favorite color. They have a reason for liking what they like and for disliking whatever they don\u2019t like. These little details also matter. If I tell you the story of why I like whatever color I like, and then one day you reference that story? I\u2019ll be your friend for life. I will fight anyone who slanders you because you listened to me! Listening to someone is the best way to show someone that they matter to you. People don\u2019t listen and think. We are all so constantly bombarded by random information that it is hard to process the raw tons of stimuli that we are constantly smacked with. But if we try a little bit harder to pay attention to the relevant information that makes up our environment, then maybe we will all lead more attentive lives that make us feel more connected to the other people around us.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by Lorin Brice Hall What\u2019s your favorite color? This is such a common question. Everyone asks everyone\u00a0this question. People ask it on dates, in random conversation, over text or whenever. It\u2019s a\u00a0question that doesn\u2019t mean anything. It means nothing. It is a silence-killer. It is a sign that you\u00a0want to keep talking to the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}