{"id":10437,"date":"2015-12-12T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=10437"},"modified":"2015-12-12T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T14:30:00","slug":"the-pussification-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/the-pussification-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pussification Factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behold this recent iTunes podcast review:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cI recently got into marketing and I wanted to learn how to write better. Not sure how I came across Ben but he really does shoot it to you straight. You know exactly what you are getting and quite frankly I think that is why a lot of people either love him or hate him. The ones that hate him probably have a pussification factor about that that they cannot accept the truth. The truth is hard to swallow but thank you Ben and Jonathan for cutting through the noise and giving the cold hard truth because ultimately it will make us all better for it whether we agree or disagree. Truth is truth.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The reviewer\u2019s opinion is correct, of course.<\/p>\n<p>And tomorrow\u2019s episode is no different.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s guaranteed to offend the pussified.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t be helped, either.<\/p>\n<p>Because, in 2015 you can\u2019t swing a bat without offending someone.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, recently I saw a meme on Twitter with this guy playing \u201cTwister\u201d with some light beams, all contorted and twisted around to avoid any of the lights touching him with the words:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cTrying not offend people in 2015\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyway, new episode airs tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, download our other shows here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BenSettleShow.com\/antipreneur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.BenSettleShow.com\/antipreneur<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behold this recent iTunes podcast review: \u201cI recently got into marketing and I wanted to learn how to write better. Not sure how I came across Ben but he really does shoot it to you straight. You know exactly what you are getting and quite frankly I think that is why a lot of people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-copywriting-and-sales-letters","7":"category-email-marketing","8":"category-sales-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}