{"id":3230,"date":"2003-01-09T10:59:35","date_gmt":"2003-01-09T15:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3230"},"modified":"2003-01-09T10:59:35","modified_gmt":"2003-01-09T15:59:35","slug":"thumbs_up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/09\/thumbs_up.html","title":{"rendered":"Thumbs up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time once again for a heart-warming episode of <a title=\"The Thursday Thumb-Twiddler: Thart-up Thursday\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/thursday\/archives\/003425.html\">The Thursday Thumb-Twiddler<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>1. Someone you deeply love is horribly murdered. The person you know did it gets off. Do you take justice\/revenge into your own hands?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Probably not &#8212; and I&#8217;ll feel like it was a chicken-shit failure of mine for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n<p><b>2. If you learned you were going to die in two days, would you have any regrets? If you suddenly got a five year respite, could you avoid those same regrets?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Aside from not being able to provide for my loved ones, nothing major.  Lots of minor ones, though.  A lot of writing that never got finished, places I wanted to go that I didn&#8217;t visit, genealogical stuff and eleventy-dozen different projects that never got completed.<\/p>\n<p>If I <i>knew <\/i>that there was a five year time limit, yeah, I&#8217;d probably do those things.  At least some of them.  <\/p>\n<p>Maybe.  After all, I know I&#8217;ve got a forty-odd-year probable time limit for these things, and I don&#8217;t seem to be getting them accomplished.  But, then, I don&#8217;t really know what the final deadline is, do I?<\/p>\n<p><i>3. What&#8217;s the greatest fashion faux pas &#8212; wearing clothes too big, clothes too small, clothes ten years out of date, or clothes for someone ten years older than you?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>This question was supposed to say, in the last clause, &#8220;younger,&#8221; not &#8220;older,&#8221; and that&#8217;s the pretty high up on my list.  Though usually there&#8217;s a big overlap (or, ahem, lack of overlap) with the &#8220;clothes too small&#8221; category in that case, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time once again for a heart-warming episode of The Thursday Thumb-Twiddler!&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-qa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24605,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/16\/regrets-youll-have-a-few.html","url_meta":{"origin":3230,"position":0},"title":"Regrets, You&#39;ll Have a Few","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-Dec-11 3:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A palliative caregiver summarizes what she most heard from her dying patients about things they regretted most as their lives drew to a close.1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.2. I wish I didn't work so\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6130,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/05\/13\/mmmmmmmm_3.html","url_meta":{"origin":3230,"position":1},"title":"Mmmmmmmm","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 13-May-04 9:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A very pleasant evening. A trip to the library, followed by a Mother's Day dinner at Papadeaux. Too much food and wine, but no regrets ... One reason for the...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-books"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13576,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/11\/words_mean_things_19.html","url_meta":{"origin":3230,"position":2},"title":"Words mean things","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Nov-08 9:06pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Now he regrets some of the things he said ... \"I regret saying some things I shouldn't have said,\" Bush told CNN's Heidi Collins Twhen asked to reflect on his...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics &amp; Law&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics &amp; Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":564,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/09\/18\/falwell_apologi.html","url_meta":{"origin":3230,"position":3},"title":"Falwell Apologizes For Remarks (Kinda)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 18-Sep-01 12:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Falwell Apologizes For Remarks (Kinda) Falwell regrets making the remarks -- though, it sounds, more because of the timing and the wording (and the ensuing uproar), not the sentiment. Robertson,...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;9-11&quot;","block_context":{"text":"9-11","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/9-11"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6234,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/05\/get_out_the_vot.html","url_meta":{"origin":3230,"position":4},"title":"Get out the vote","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-Oct-04 8:55am","format":false,"excerpt":"Joshua Claybourn regrets news reports that voter registration is way up for this election. But the reality is that most citizens aren't informed, and quite frankly I'm okay with them...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics &amp; Law&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics &amp; Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131310,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/19\/when-is-an-apology-not-an-apology-yuge-regrets-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":3230,"position":5},"title":"When is an apology not an apology? (Yuge Regrets Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 19-Aug-16 12:06pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Trump has apologized. Sort of. Vaguely. For something. For where he \"may\" have caused \"personal pain\". So ... really not so much.Now, it's vaguely astonishing that Trump would actually ever dream of apologizing in the first place. It's less astonishing when you actually parse that apology for weasel words\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016%2B-%2B1imgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016%2B-%2B1imgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016%2B-%2B1imgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}