{"id":142,"date":"2005-04-25T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2005-04-25T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/25\/the-past-and-future\/"},"modified":"2005-04-26T12:34:28","modified_gmt":"2005-04-26T17:34:28","slug":"the-past-and-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/25\/the-past-and-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The Past and Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a message from an aquaintance a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>The backstory: If I recall correctly, he and some friends used my website Guestbook for a couple weeks to have a rude conversation&#8230; the kind of conversation a bunch of rude high school freshmen would have on a message board. I tracked their IP addresses to the Roxbury Latin School in Boston and gave the school a call. I got a short &#8220;Thank you&#8221; note from them and heard no more.<\/p>\n<p>After I got the message below, I googled him and found that he&#8217;s a senior and (I assume) graduating in about 1 1\/2 months.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what he sent me on Saturday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hey lee. 5 years ago i posted an obscene message on your message board, and you felt the need to contact my school, roxbury latin and tell them about it. you got 15 kids suspended and i think you&#8217;re worthless.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you realize how worthless you are and that you really have no real friends in your life. your website is even worse than it was 5 years ago. keep it up pal.<\/p>\n<p>you&#8217;re worthless,<br \/>\n-[removed]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I responded today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Own your failures as well as your successes. You&#8217;ll be 10 times the man you thought you could be.<\/p>\n<p>All the best for graduation.<br \/>\nLook forward and look up!<br \/>\nLee<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a message from an aquaintance a few days ago. The backstory: If I recall correctly, he and some friends used my website Guestbook for a couple weeks to have a rude conversation&#8230; the kind of conversation a bunch of rude high school freshmen would have on a message board. I tracked their IP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}