{"id":5984,"date":"2014-01-20T17:19:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T17:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=5984"},"modified":"2014-01-27T19:34:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T19:34:25","slug":"2014-02-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-02-02\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Mappin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Laura Mappin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-02-02\/\">Improve Your Argument&#8217;s Impact<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Laura Mappin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-02-02\/\">Laura Mappin<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Laura Mappin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-02-02\/\">February 2, 2014<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Note: HCSV Board elections will occur on this date before this Forum begins.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5972 alignleft\" alt=\"telescope-250-5672\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/telescope-250-5672.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"263\" \/>Each of us has probably taken part in a number of persuasive arguments that have only resulted in hurt feelings and disturbed relationships but no further understanding or learning on anyone&#8217;s part. We have also probably found ourselves on both sides of those failed arguments. How can we do better?<\/p>\n<p>In this forum, Humanist Community member Laura Mappin will take a look at several scholars&#8217; views on this subject and then facilitate a group discussion on this topic. Audience members will consider real life argument examples provided by attendees and crowd-source possible responses. (This Forum will not be videotaped to allow for a freer discussion.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improve Your Argument&#8217;s Impact Laura Mappin February 2, 2014 Note: HCSV Board elections will occur on this date before this Forum begins. Each of us has probably taken part in a number of persuasive arguments that have only resulted in hurt feelings and disturbed relationships but no further understanding or learning on anyone&#8217;s part. We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-02-02\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Laura Mappin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[43,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6001,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions\/6001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}