{"id":5006,"date":"2026-09-28T09:47:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T09:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=5006"},"modified":"2026-09-28T09:47:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T09:47:58","slug":"as-good-as-flattery-feels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/as-good-as-flattery-feels\/","title":{"rendered":"As good as flattery feels&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Proverbs 28:23 KJV \u2014 He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;rebuke is much better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s a way to do it. You&#8217;re to speak the truth in love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> But whatever gain you receive today through flattering, you&#8217;ll get much more tomorrow through saying what needs to be said and not just what is pleasing to the ear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flattery feels good, but rebuke is worth a lot more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proverbs 28:23 KJV \u2014 He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue. &#8230;rebuke is much better. There&#8217;s a way to do it. You&#8217;re to speak the truth in love. But whatever gain you receive today through flattering, you&#8217;ll get much more tomorrow through saying what needs &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/as-good-as-flattery-feels\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;As good as flattery feels&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6766,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions\/6766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}