{"id":1908,"date":"2016-04-11T14:06:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T22:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2016-04-11T14:06:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T22:06:39","slug":"get-to-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=1908","title":{"rendered":"Get To The Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get To The Point<\/p>\n<p>Enough of the small talk.<br \/>\nIt is time to get down to basics.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t want to hear you squawk.<br \/>\nLet\u2019s not make this like a matrix.<\/p>\n<p>Time to get down to the brass tacks.<br \/>\nNo more beating around the bush.<br \/>\nNo more waiting for it to pass.<br \/>\nTime to get up off your tush.<\/p>\n<p>No more stalling and excuses.<br \/>\nTime to get to the heart of things.<br \/>\nFollow the path to where the moose is.<br \/>\nFace the music, like you had wings.<\/p>\n<p>Time to get down and bite the bullet.<br \/>\nIt is time to get to the point.<br \/>\nNo more acting like you already know it.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get pushed all out of joint.<\/p>\n<p>Put your money where your mouth is.<br \/>\nTime to pay the piper, so to speak.<br \/>\nNo time out to take a wiz.<br \/>\nStand tall and quit feeling weak.<\/p>\n<p>We have faced it 100 times before.<br \/>\nWe must be strong &amp; face it again.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t try sneaking out the door.<br \/>\nAre you a wimp or a real friend.<\/p>\n<p>Time to get down and dirty.<br \/>\nTime to get down to the nitty gritty.<br \/>\nNo more ducking out like a dirty birdy.<br \/>\nThe end result may not be pretty.<\/p>\n<p>Time to take one and wrap it up.<br \/>\nTime to put an end to it all.<br \/>\nWhat do you mean I should shut up?<br \/>\nIt is time you fess up to what you saw.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;R. W. Johnson&#8212;&#8211;(2016)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get To The Point Enough of the small talk. It is time to get down to basics. I don\u2019t want to hear you squawk. Let\u2019s not make this like a matrix. Time to get down to the brass tacks. No more beating around the bush. No more waiting for it to pass. Time to get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=1908\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Get To The Point<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,29,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-bird-poetry","category-life-lessons","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1909,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions\/1909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}