{"id":1412,"date":"2009-02-04T17:45:57","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T01:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2009-02-04T17:57:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T01:57:10","slug":"moraldilemmaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=1412","title":{"rendered":"Moral Dilemma II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I posted a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/simon-says\/moral-dilemma\">&#8220;Moral Dilemma&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> about some kids playing in the front yard of\u00a0 a church.\u00a0 Last Friday, in order to do something I sent the link to two of the public emails at the church in question.\u00a0 On Monday I received a phone call and a blog comment from Robert B.\u00a0 What he said on the phone was pretty much the same as the <a href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/simon-says\/moral-dilemma#comment-1965\" target=\"_self\"><strong>blog comment<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Here is an excerpt:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Instead of hiding behind closed doors and taking secret picturs like some amateur detective, why did\u2019nt you just walk across the street and ask what was going on, instead of making accusations which have no truth in them. &#8230;&#8230;\u00a0 I would get the facts before making broad statements which have a minimum of credability.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well Bob the reason I didn&#8217;t &#8220;walk across the street&#8221; was because I was worried that whoever I talked to would get defensive and attack the messenger.\u00a0 I rest my case.<\/p>\n<p>I understand the feeling of being attacked and I apologize if I offended anyone or touched a nerve.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sometimes the one who gets defensive so know how it feels.\u00a0 What\u00a0 I wanted was to make sure that the Church knew that there were children playing near the main street and had thought about it.\u00a0 It is clear that the little bit that I did to make that happen was too much so I&#8217;m going to stop.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I have observed is that: <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;You get the maddest when you are the wrongest.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I posted a &#8220;Moral Dilemma&#8221; about some kids playing in the front yard of\u00a0 a church.\u00a0 Last Friday, in order to do something I sent the link to two of the public emails at the church in question.\u00a0 On Monday I received a phone call and a blog comment from Robert [&hellip;]<\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-mM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1416,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}