{"id":2417,"date":"2002-06-27T07:49:33","date_gmt":"2002-06-27T12:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2002-06-27T07:49:33","modified_gmt":"2002-06-27T12:49:33","slug":"if_its_thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/27\/if_its_thursday.html","title":{"rendered":"If it’s Thursday …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… it must be time for The Thursday Thumb-Twiddler<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1. Would you rather die peacefully among friends at 50, or painfully and alone at 80? Assume that most of those thirty years would be “good” ones.<\/b><\/p>\n

I’ll admit that I’m chicken. In a vacuum, I’d choose the former. Unfortunately, I have a commitment named Katherine, and I am (ahem) way too close to my 50th birthday to check out that soon.<\/p>\n

Isn’t that noble?<\/p>\n

2. Your teen arrives home one night with a big dent in his car fender. You find out the next day there was a hit-and-run in the neighborhood. Would you try to find out if your kid was involved? If you found out s\/he was, would you notify the authorities? What if there was a death from the hit-and-run?<\/b><\/p>\n

That’s a tough one. There’s a real “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” strain in me — but also a desire to be honest (and raise Katherine the same way).<\/p>\n

So, yes, I’d try to find out. And … yes, I’d report it.<\/p>\n

And if there were a death involved? Hrm. <\/p>\n

Secrets like that always haunt. The more they’re kept secret, the more harm they do.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I’d have to.<\/p>\n

3. What would the title of your autobiography be (not including your name)?<\/b><\/p>\n

Hopefully something clever. Hmmm. Maybe that’s not a bad title. Hopefully Something Clever<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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