{"id":689,"date":"2010-08-24T09:55:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T13:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/?p=689"},"modified":"2010-08-24T09:57:04","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T13:57:04","slug":"yellow-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The light was yellow.\u00a0\u00a0 A big truck was in my rear view mirror.\u00a0\u00a0 I had to decide fast.\u00a0 Slam on the brakes or go on through?\u00a0 I went on through.\u00a0 The light turned red.\u00a0\u00a0 Was the camera watching?\u00a0 Will I receive a ticket in the mail?\u00a0 If I had stopped in time, would the truck have done the same?<\/p>\n<p>We all face yellow lights in life.\u00a0 Sometimes we make the right decision.\u00a0 Sometimes we don&#8217;t.\u00a0\u00a0The consequences aren&#8217;t always a reliable indicator of a good decision.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We may never know what the outcome of the &#8220;un-chosen&#8221; 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