{"id":226,"date":"2021-01-11T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/?p=226"},"modified":"2021-01-09T15:55:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T15:55:52","slug":"just-a-little-frog-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Just a little frog list"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you read my blogs, in any of the options, you\u2019ll know that I am doing loads of new stuff at the moment and the only thing they have is common is that they are all taking me outside my comfort zone (see <a href=\"https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/?p=211\">https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/?p=211<\/a>). In fact, it\u2019s gotten to the point where I have a \u201cFrogs to eat\u201d list! (Thank you Mark Twain.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lots of people have helped me, both real people and YouTube experts. All have different specialisms, but all seem to have three things in common. They<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>all know their stuff and are clear about what they don\u2019t know,<\/li><li>are happy to share their knowledge,<\/li><li>all use the word \u2018just\u2019 when telling me stuff, as in \u201cYou just click on that\u201d.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Now this may be just me being a bit paranoid, but it seems that when I \u201cJust click on that\u201d the same thing that happened when they \u201cJust clicked on that\u201d doesn\u2019t happen. It might be that the recording is old, and the information is out of date, or it may just be the technology fairies messing with me. Either way it doesn\u2019t end well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a recent sleepless night, when the frog list wouldn\u2019t let me settle into my snuggly pillow, I suddenly realised that it wasn\u2019t the frog list that was worrying me, it was the word \u2018just\u2019. Because when an expert says \u201cJust do this\u201d they are basing this on years, if not decades, of knowledge, of doing that thing. So \u2018just\u2019 to me means possibly hours of head scratching, pencil chewing and hair pulling\u2026and of course dreaming of frog lists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I have learnt three things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>when a real someone says \u201cjust\u2026\u201d I suppress the urge to weep, and I ask them for clarification,<\/li><li>when a virtual someone says \u201cjust\u2026\u201d I suppress the urge to weep and click to another person,<\/li><li>when I hear myself saying \u201cJust\u2026\u201d I ask if they understand what needs doing.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>My question to you, therefore, is\u2014is this just me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want some help with your networking, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebn.uk.com\">www.ebn.uk.com<\/a> and download my top 20 networking tips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you read my blogs, in any of the options, you\u2019ll know that I am doing loads of new stuff at the moment and the only thing they have is common is that they are all taking me outside my comfort zone (see https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/?p=211). In fact, it\u2019s gotten to the point where I have a&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/?p=226\" title=\"ReadJust a little frog list\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}