{"id":841,"date":"2006-12-28T19:43:13","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T01:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2006\/moral-dilemma\/"},"modified":"2006-12-28T19:58:40","modified_gmt":"2006-12-29T01:58:40","slug":"moral-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2006\/moral-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Moral dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucy and I had a successful shopping experience at Target today. That is, until I discovered that I walked out of the store without paying for my gallon of milk. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image843\" src=\"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/img_5416.JPG\" alt=\"Moral dilemma\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/p>\n<p>p{color:gray}. Photo: &#8220;Whaddaya think? Does this make me an accomplice?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was a simple mistake \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Lucy was fussy in the long checkout line, the milk was on the bottom of the cart, neither I nor the checker noticed. When I realized my mistake while loading the car, Lucy was already beginning to melt down for want of a nap. I was not about to go stand in that line again!<\/p>\n<p>So, what am I to do? Should I try to pay for it next time I go to Target? Or is this sort of thing built into the pricing overhead? Who knew that motherhood would turn me into a common thief?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucy and I had a successful shopping experience at Target today. That is, until I discovered that I walked out of the store without paying for my gallon of milk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}