{"id":140,"date":"2007-01-12T17:47:20","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T22:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/?p=140"},"modified":"2007-01-12T17:47:20","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T22:47:20","slug":"share-your-embarassing-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/share-your-embarassing-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Share Your Embarassing Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s national de-lurking week<\/a>, or some such nonsense. I highly doubt that we have that many lurkers around here (my woefully inadequate posting level should pretty much guarantee that). But, just in case there are some of you lurking, I figured what better way to delurk than with an embarrassing story? <\/p>\n

I have many, many embarrassing stories, so I will get things started with one that I was just thinking about today.<\/p>\n

When I was six or seven, my parents took me to the beach for the afternoon. When I was little, I had a tendency to make “friends” with pretty much everyone who came into my path. So, within five minutes of our arrival, I was building sand castles with another little girl.<\/p>\n

When it was time to leave, our parents had us pack up our toys. This is when I saw the other little girl take my favorite blue shovel and put it in her beach bag. Ever the drama queen, I pitched a screaming, crying tempter tantrum. “She stole my shovel! She stole my shovel!” The little girl’s parents swore up and down that it was hers and my parents, very much embarrassed, dragged me away and demanded to know what in the hell was wrong with me (I was always a ridiculously well-behaved child. Public melt-downs just weren’t in my nature).<\/p>\n

Years later, my mom admitted to me that she sometimes thought back on that story and felt extremely guilty. I did<\/i> have a shovel like the one that the girl had put in her bag. And she (my mom) had never seen it again. “I’m sorry,” my mom sighed,” I think that little girl really did steal your shovel and we just let her. I’m so sorry.”<\/p>\n

Sheepishly, I admitted to my mom something that I had kept a secret for over a decade. When we got home from the beach, I discovered my own shovel sitting in the sandbox. I was so ashamed to have caused a scene over someone else’s shovel that I buried my little blue shovel so that nobody would ever find it.<\/p>\n

—-<\/p>\n

So, that’s my story. Anyone have one of their own that they’d like to share?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s national de-lurking week, or some such nonsense. I highly doubt that we have that many lurkers around here (my woefully inadequate posting level should pretty much guarantee that). But,…<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-random"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yggS-2g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}