{"id":370,"date":"2008-11-04T21:10:37","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T03:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/?p=370"},"modified":"2008-11-04T21:10:37","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T03:10:37","slug":"paintswappers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/paintswappers-370","title":{"rendered":"Paintswappers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve a quick scenario for you. And, no, I&#8217;m not describing something I&#8217;ve done.<\/p>\n<p>While exiting a co-worker&#8217;s vehicle, you manage to smack the next car in the lot with your door. It&#8217;s not a huge dent, but there&#8217;s definitely a dimple. You&#8217;ve left paint, too, and unfortunately it constrasts with the flat gray\/silver of the other guy&#8217;s finish. The car in question is dirty but it&#8217;s not a junker by any stretch of the imagination, and there are no other visible dents or dings. As you eat your lunch you discover the car&#8217;s owner is an employee of the establishment you&#8217;re presently patronizing, so it would be easy to confess your minor sin and even make amends if that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re about.<\/p>\n<p>So, what would you do? Is something so minor even worth considering? And if not, how much damage would have been required to make it a non-event?<\/p>\n<p>I know you can&#8217;t be arsed to leave your reply here, but it&#8217;s something to think about. I did watch all this unfold today at lunch, and it was really fascinating to watch my protagonist (or was he really the antagonist, since he ultimately left his &#8220;crime&#8221; [your call] unconfessed?) as he slowly rationalized away any responsibility he may or may not have been liable for. Fun times, and nobody died completely dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve a quick scenario for you. And, no, I&#8217;m not describing something I&#8217;ve done. While exiting a co-worker&#8217;s vehicle, you manage to smack the next car in the lot with your door. It&#8217;s not a huge dent, but there&#8217;s definitely a dimple. You&#8217;ve left paint, too, and unfortunately it constrasts with the flat gray\/silver of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}