{"id":8506,"date":"2025-05-09T20:53:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T18:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/?p=8506"},"modified":"2025-05-09T20:53:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T18:53:53","slug":"john-mathews-is-not-who-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/09\/john-mathews-is-not-who-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mathews is not who you think"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week something interesting happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John contacted me, and I use to reject this type of connect requests, but this time I thought &#8220;let&#8217;s play&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"589\" src=\"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-7-1024x589.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8507\" srcset=\"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-7-1024x589.png 1024w, http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-7-300x173.png 300w, http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-7-768x442.png 768w, http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-7.png 1285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>John sent me a note:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"656\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8508\" srcset=\"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-8.png 656w, http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-8-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I answered:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"579\" height=\"182\" src=\"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8509\" srcset=\"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-9.png 579w, http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-9-300x94.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>John replied:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-10.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8510\" srcset=\"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-10.png 650w, http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-10-300x182.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And we stopped here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we say in Spanish &#8220;against the vice of asking, the virtue of not giving&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the iCert Digital page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icertglobal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.icertglobal.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"423\" src=\"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-11-1024x423.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8511\" srcset=\"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-11-1024x423.png 1024w, http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-11-300x124.png 300w, http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-11-768x317.png 768w, http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-11.png 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week something interesting happened. 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