{"id":1145,"date":"2009-04-12T22:43:16","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T14:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2009-04-13T07:50:23","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T23:50:23","slug":"apologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/12\/apologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Apologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I felt awful after being a jerk to Heidi the other day, and (while she was at work) I spent the afternoon trying to figure out how to show that I was sorry.<\/p>\n<p>I tried the following things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I bought flowers and set them in the vase on the dining table<\/li>\n<li>I cleaned the mysterious black mark on the floor<\/li>\n<li>I polished the (chalky) olives we collected from the garden<\/li>\n<li>I bought milk (which I often forget) and hot-cross buns (Heidi loves them)<\/li>\n<li>I cleaned the house (a bit)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are some photos of things that I tried (because I like photos):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/attempts.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"1148\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/12\/apologies\/attempts\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/attempts.jpg?fit=480%2C833&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"480,833\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"attempts\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/attempts.jpg?fit=172%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/attempts.jpg?fit=480%2C833&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/attempts.jpg?resize=480%2C833\" alt=\"attempts\" title=\"attempts\" width=\"480\" height=\"833\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1148\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They all seemed like not quite enough (even when combined into a sort of composite apology). Finally (in desperation), I drew this picture of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pm.gov.au\/\">Kevin Rudd<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dscf1997-modified-in-gimp-image-editor.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"1147\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/12\/apologies\/dscf1997-modified-in-gimp-image-editor\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dscf1997-modified-in-gimp-image-editor.jpg?fit=480%2C369&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"480,369\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;FinePix S100FS&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1239606732&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;7.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.022222222222222&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"dscf1997-modified-in-gimp-image-editor\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dscf1997-modified-in-gimp-image-editor.jpg?fit=300%2C230&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dscf1997-modified-in-gimp-image-editor.jpg?fit=480%2C369&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dscf1997-modified-in-gimp-image-editor.jpg?resize=480%2C369\" alt=\"dscf1997-modified-in-gimp-image-editor\" title=\"dscf1997-modified-in-gimp-image-editor\" width=\"480\" height=\"369\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dscf1997-modified-in-gimp-image-editor.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dscf1997-modified-in-gimp-image-editor.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I figured that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/events\/apology\/\">he&#8217;s good at saying &#8220;sorry&#8221;<\/a> when others fail to do so properly, and he sounds sincere when talking about committment. Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>When I picked Heidi up from work she was just happy to see me (even before I showed her the picture of Kevin). <em>She&#8217;s wonderful.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I felt awful after being a jerk to Heidi the other day, and (while she was at work) I spent the afternoon trying to figure out how to show that I was sorry. I tried the following things: I bought flowers and set them in the vase on the dining table I cleaned the mysterious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/12\/apologies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apologies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-it","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}