{"id":2880,"date":"2007-06-03T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:29:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:29:57","slug":"its-not-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2007\/06\/03\/its-not-me\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Not Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

I monitor Google Alerts about “Henry Melton” for several reasons. Sometimes there are reviews that I need to know about. Sometimes someone is looking for information about some story of mine. Often it’s a way to make contact with people building their own library indexes. <\/p>\n

But when I started getting alerts about some high school football player in Grapevine Texas, I knew I might have a problem. When he signed with the University of Texas and was part of the national championship team, I was certain of it. Up until that point, I was the top-ranked Google hit for “Henry Melton”. Now I’m lucky if I get position on the first page. What’s worse is that we both live in the Austin, Texas area.<\/p>\n

At least when he makes a touchdown, people at church congratulate me for it.<\/p>\n

I had hopes for this guy. When he first signed at UT, I tried to make contact, to offer a link from my HenryMelton.com to any page of his choice for people who discovered my website while looking for him, but the only email address I was able to locate was an empty well and I never got a response. It could well be that he just isn’t interested in the internet. <\/p>\n

Still, it was a rude shock to get an alert about his arrest. Believe me, I’m up here in Yellowstone, not partying down on Sixth Street.<\/p>\n

We don’t even look alike. I’m the guy with glasses.
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I monitor Google Alerts about “Henry Melton” for several reasons. Sometimes there are reviews that I need to know about. Sometimes someone is looking for information about some story of mine. Often it’s a way to make contact with people building their own library indexes. But when I started getting alerts about some high school… Continue reading It’s Not Me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[379],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-Ks","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2881,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions\/2881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}