Yes, my good friend, it would seem you’ve been hitting some hard times.<\/p>\n
I’m truly, truly sorry to hear that your car has broken down.\u00a0 It can be a real hassle when cars break down.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And it’s sad that your daughter is sick, and needs to get to Regions.\u00a0 I’ve been there; trying to take care of family emergencies with a balky car can be harrowing, for sure.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And it’s drastically bad luck that she’s in the car right now <\/em>in her condition, with Mom over on a side street out of sight of this parking lot.\u00a0 Gawd, that has to stink.<\/p>\n And I know –\u00a0I know!<\/em> – that you are under immense stress.\u00a0 The tone of your voice truly says it all.\u00a0 I feel your pain and your stress, on\u00a0a level perhaps deeper than you might suspect.<\/p>\n And I know this is the kind of time that you could<\/em> use a helping hand from a stranger – say, $100 to get your car towed and catch a cab down to Regions.\u00a0 Christian charity is a powerful thing, and Minnesotans are rightly famous for it.<\/p>\n I do feel I should lend you the hand you need.\u00a0 I feel it in the pit of my gut.<\/p>\n And I’d feel it a lot more if this weren’t the second time you, yourself, have tried this con on me in this self-same parking lot<\/em> in the past year.<\/p>\n That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yes, my good friend, it would seem you’ve been hitting some hard times. I’m truly, truly sorry to hear that your car has broken down.\u00a0 It can be a real hassle when cars break down.\u00a0 And it’s sad that your daughter is sick, and needs to get to Regions.\u00a0 I’ve been there; trying to take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-3665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch","category-st-paul","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33691,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions\/33691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}