{"id":5981,"date":"2016-02-19T12:35:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T20:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/?p=5981"},"modified":"2016-02-19T12:35:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T20:35:03","slug":"on-three-words-i-try-not-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/on-three-words-i-try-not-to-say\/","title":{"rendered":"on three words i try not to say."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you get older and you have little people (aka nephews\/nieces\/friends&#8217; babies) around that you want to help grow up loved and smart and happy, you start to notice the way people use their words.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always been a stickler for grammar and word usage, but as I get older, here are some words I&#8217;d wish people would use less:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jealous<\/strong>. I hear 100 times a day &#8220;I&#8217;m so jealous!&#8221; of someone&#8217;s brunch, trip to a far-off land, weekend afternoon off, manicure, new jeans, etc. I hate that word. Don&#8217;t be jealous, be proud\/appreciative\/happy for them. And mean it. You&#8217;ll get yours. And even you don&#8217;t, aren&#8217;t you\u00a0<em>glad<\/em> they did? <strong>Appropriate replacement:<\/strong> gratitude. Show gratitude for what others have and also gratitude for what you have &#8211; even if it isn&#8217;t a month in Fiji or a new wardrobe or standing manicures.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sorry<\/strong>. I&#8217;ve talked<a href=\"http:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/all-of-them-started-with-the-word-sorry\"> about this before<\/a>. Don&#8217;t say sorry unless you&#8217;ve done something worthy of apologizing for.<strong> Appropriate replacement:<\/strong> excuse me, pardon me, thank you.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Starving<\/strong>. This is one I think my mom said to me a lot that&#8217;s stuck with me. You are definitely not starving. You are very hungry. You are regular hungry. You might even be thirsty. But you are not starving. This is more of a mindset. In addition, please everyone stop getting so hangry all the. Be a responsible adult and carry a snack in your purse like the smart people do. (I need to take my own advice on this one often.) <strong>Appropriate replacement:<\/strong> Hungry. Very hungry. Hangry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do y&#8217;all think? Are there words you try to use less? Do you try to put more meaning behind your words as you get holder?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you get older and you have little people (aka nephews\/nieces\/friends&#8217; babies) around that you want to help grow up loved and smart and happy, you start to notice the way people use their words. I&#8217;ve always been a stickler &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/on-three-words-i-try-not-to-say\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,27],"tags":[1453,1309,1454,1455,1456],"class_list":["post-5981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-letter","category-random-thoughtslittle-things-to-tell-you","tag-jealous","tag-sorry","tag-starving","tag-words","tag-words-not-to-say"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5982,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions\/5982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}