{"id":1579,"date":"2013-09-20T15:35:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T22:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2013-09-20T14:02:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T21:02:28","slug":"mea-culpa-mea-culpa-mea-maxima-culpa-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=1579","title":{"rendered":"mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa, #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone probably has someone they wish they could apologize to about&#8230;something. I like to think that I&#8217;ve been a pretty kind person overall, but I know I&#8217;ve had my moments of awfulness. I might be smarter than a lot of  people, and funnier than a lot of  people, but I&#8217;m definitely not one bit nicer than I&#8217;ve had to be.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I would like to apologize for the following sin.<\/p>\n<p>6th grade. A friend and I hid another girl&#8217;s jacket as a joke. We meant to give it back at the end of class, but by the end of the day we&#8217;d forgotten about it. Part of the plan was that she would make a fuss about it when she realized it was gone, and we&#8217;d laugh and give it back. She didn&#8217;t say a word, she just left quietly without it. From what our teacher said the next day, her father was angry. I&#8217;m guessing she meant physically angry. We could not apologize hard enough to get that girl un-hit. <\/p>\n<p>I still feel queasy about it.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone probably has someone they wish they could apologize to about&#8230;something. I like to think that I&#8217;ve been a pretty kind person overall, but I know I&#8217;ve had my moments of awfulness. I might be smarter than a lot of people, and funnier than a lot of people, but I&#8217;m definitely not one bit nicer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=1579\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa, #2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-pt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1650,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=1650","url_meta":{"origin":1579,"position":0},"title":"mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa #3","author":"Michelle","date":"September 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Everyone probably has someone they wish they could apologize to about...something. 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