{"id":1272,"date":"2013-05-09T11:42:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T11:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2023-04-24T15:01:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T15:01:23","slug":"removing-a-member-of-the-mental-design-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/removing-a-member-of-the-mental-design-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Removing a Member of the Mental Design Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am all the members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/?cat=51\">Mental Design Team.<\/a>  Since I often make decisions by discussing things with myself, I personified all the voices and wrote out the dialog.  They have been testy a bit lately:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1124\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1124\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eagleswingscoop.org\/christineguestdesigns\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/editortongue-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"editortongue\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1124\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Expectations was in a loud mood, &#8220;You should have made the photos on the <a href=\"http:\/\/christineguestdesigns.com\/Patterns2.html\">patterns page<\/a> have a caption months ago, so people would know to just click on the photo to see an individual pattern without going through tons of intermediate screens.  Why didn&#8217;t you do it already? 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