{"id":148,"date":"2003-09-25T18:13:53","date_gmt":"2003-09-25T23:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/a-little-humility-goes-a-long-way\/"},"modified":"2003-09-25T18:13:53","modified_gmt":"2003-09-25T23:13:53","slug":"a-little-humility-goes-a-long-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/a-little-humility-goes-a-long-way\/","title":{"rendered":"a little humility goes a long way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;ve been waiting for a good link into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisarein.com\/\">lisa rein<\/a> (because there are just so many common threads here),  and today i found one.  in keeping with the <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/tools_and_results.html\">tools and results<\/a> post of some weeks ago,  again,  it&#8217;s all in the approach.<\/p>\n<p>the riaa made a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlisareinsradar.com\/archives\/001785.php#001785\">mistake<\/a>.  usually, in civil interaction, when you make a mistake, it&#8217;s a good idea to apologize.  a little.  especially if everyone is watching you and it&#8217;s a really big mistake.<\/p>\n<p>obviously, a little story in a little newspaper like the new york times isn&#8217;t the whole story here, but&#8230; y&#8217;know.  it&#8217;s just an opinion of mine.  humility is a good thing.  self-deprecation is a good thing too.  and apologizing when you bag the wrong ferocious criminal is always a good thing.  joi <a href=\"http:\/\/joi.ito.com\/archives\/2003\/09\/26\/riaa_sues_first_thinks_later_no_apologies.html\"> puts it well<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Being sued isn&#8217;t like, &#8220;oh sorry&#8230; wrong number..&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>maybe it&#8217;s a cultural thing?<\/p>\n<p>just, please, when you apologize, try to be a little more sincere than &#8220;my bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>since the riaa [apparently] isn&#8217;t going to do it, i will.<\/p>\n<p>mrs. ward, i am very sorry that the recording industry association of america incorrectly identified you as a career criminal and music thief.  i&#8217;m sorry you had to deal with lawyers and paperwork.  i&#8217;m sorry you had to deal with media and rap music (but only because you don&#8217;t seem to like it \ud83d\ude42 ).  and i do hope that the recording industry association of america will make every effort to learn from this mistake and implement changes to prevent this from happening again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;ve been waiting for a good link into lisa rein (because there are just so many common threads here), and today i found one. in keeping with the tools and results post of some weeks ago, again, it&#8217;s all in the approach. the riaa made a mistake. usually, in civil interaction, when you make a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}