{"id":260,"date":"2005-01-27T07:45:45","date_gmt":"2005-01-27T12:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=260"},"modified":"2005-01-26T11:46:38","modified_gmt":"2005-01-26T16:46:38","slug":"how-much-does-it-cost-to-beg-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"How much does it cost to beg forgiveness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After flowers, phone calls and visits didn&#8217;t work, some poor schmuck who&#8217;s trying to make up with his estranged wife paid $<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/01\/26\/newspaper.ad.ap\/index.html\">17,000 to take out an ad in the local newspaper, begging for forgiveness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Please believe the words in my letter, they are true and from my heart,&#8221; read the ad in Tuesday&#8217;s edition of The Florida Times-Union. &#8220;I can only hope you will give me the chance to prove my unending love for you. Life without you is empty and meaningless.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So let&#8217;s recap.<\/p>\n<li>A Dozen roses: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ftd.com\/home2\/catalog\/product.epl?product_id=05-V4\">$49.99<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Cell phone bill: <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinestore.cingular.com\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/ES_PROD_RATE.jsp?leftMenuFlag=rateplan&#038;storeId=13751&#038;langId=-1&#038;catalogId=13751&#038;storeAlias=nocbmi&#038;svcAreaId=LAR\">$39.99<\/a> (if you&#8217;re cheap)<\/li>\n<li>Advertisement in newspaper: $17,000<\/li>\n<li>Mending a marriage?  More than anyone can afford, it seems. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently for this guy: $17,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}