{"id":1109,"date":"2006-11-08T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogger.scottyanderson.com\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2006-11-08T23:35:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T23:35:00","slug":"years-of-worry-over-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/?p=1109","title":{"rendered":"Years of Worry over Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have worried about something Michelle and I did way back in the day.  I remember Lisa once saying &#8220;BUMBLEBEE, SHE&#8217;S ONLY FIFTEEN!!!&#8221;  That of course has weighed on me over the years.  I always thought I had technically, maybe did something wrong.  Rather than know for sure I decided to bury my head in the sand and figure to have some deniability is always a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>But coming into this upcoming polygraph I have to make a decision.  I need to either find out the truth and tell it, or try to cover up what, in my heart, I felt was a lie.  That is a tough choice.  On one hand I realized that I could put all my jobs in jeopardy if I lied.  On the other hand if I told the truth I could be looked down upon and it could still be bad.  But I made up my mind that I needed to be honest.  I am disappointed in myself that I even questioned the idea of not being &#8220;truthful&#8221; with what was in my heart.<\/p>\n<p>So I looked up the laws.  From everything I found if She was more than sixteen then I was okay.  If she was less that sixteen but more than twelve we needed to be less than forty-eight months apart.  Now I had to find out how old she was.  I made a phone call and got her finally.  We chatted for a little bit, then I asked when she was born.<\/p>\n<p>She wanted to know why I wanted to know.  I told her about the job.  She asked if I was using her as a reference.  I sort of skirted that issue.  I got her date of birth and did some quick math.  Not only are we less than forty-eight months apart, she was SIXTEEN and a HALF!!!  I was worried over all these years for nothing.  But the problem is that you cannot take years worth of doubt and wash it out of the mind and heart in a matter of hours.<\/p>\n<p>I felt better about now telling the real truth, and not some made up version where I thought I did nothing wrong, but did not know for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have worried about something Michelle and I did way back in the day. I remember Lisa once saying &#8220;BUMBLEBEE, SHE&#8217;S ONLY FIFTEEN!!!&#8221; That of course has weighed on me over the years. I always thought I had technically, maybe did something wrong. Rather than know for sure I decided to bury my head in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}