{"id":8634,"date":"2019-05-13T16:34:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T20:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=8634"},"modified":"2019-05-13T16:53:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T20:53:45","slug":"what-is-the-strangest-compliment-you-can-pay-someone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/05\/13\/what-is-the-strangest-compliment-you-can-pay-someone\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the strangest compliment you can pay someone?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aw051319-10.jpg\" alt=\"What is the strangest compliment you can pay someone?\" class=\"wp-image-8612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aw051319-10.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aw051319-10-300x281.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>What is the strangest compliment you can pay someone?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Backhanded compliments leave people wondering if they heard a compliment or an insult.  Statements like &#8220;you&#8217;re smarter than you look&#8221; or &#8220;you&#8217;re not so bad once people get to know you&#8221; are certainly confusing and strange compliments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backhanded compliments leave people wondering if they heard a compliment or an insult. Statements like &#8220;you&#8217;re smarter than you look&#8221; or &#8220;you&#8217;re not so bad once people get to know you&#8221; are certainly confusing and strange compliments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8686,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8634\/revisions\/8686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}