{"id":1430,"date":"2013-06-13T08:18:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T12:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2013-06-13T08:18:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T12:18:53","slug":"when-asking-for-help-appeal-to-peoples-self-interest-never-to-their-mercy-or-gratitude-law-13-48laws-by-robert-greene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1430","title":{"rendered":"when asking for help, appeal to people&#8217;s self-interest, never to their mercy or gratitude &#8211; law 13 &#8211; #48laws by robert greene"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Law 13<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>If you need to turn to an ally for help, do not bother to remind him of your past assistance and good deeds. He will find a way to ignore you. Instead, uncover something in your request, or in your alliance with him, that will benefit him, and empathize it out of all proportion. He will respond enthusiastically when he sees something to be gained for himself. &#8211;{{Robert Greene}}, {{The 48 Laws of Power}} (<a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2012\/12\/06\/the-48-laws-of-power-by-robert-greene\/#.UME3wYNlH00\">review<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law 13 If you need to turn to an ally for help, do not bother to remind him of your past assistance and good deeds. He will find a way to ignore you. Instead, uncover something in your request, or in your alliance with him, that will benefit him, and empathize it out of all &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1430\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">when asking for help, appeal to people&#8217;s self-interest, never to their mercy or gratitude &#8211; law 13 &#8211; #48laws by robert greene<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[56],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-commentary","tag-48laws"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}