{"id":45352,"date":"2012-12-22T05:19:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T10:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=45352"},"modified":"2016-12-22T06:36:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T11:36:09","slug":"recalling-al-lagano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/recalling-al-lagano\/","title":{"rendered":"Recalling Al Lagano"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_45353\" style=\"width: 172px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Albert-Scott-Lagano-2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45353\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45353\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Albert-Scott-Lagano-2012.jpg\" alt=\"Al Lagano\" width=\"162\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Albert-Scott-Lagano-2012.jpg 162w, http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Albert-Scott-Lagano-2012-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 162px) 100vw, 162px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><center>Al Lagano<\/center><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Al \u00a0was the attorney I worked for when (astrologially) I hit my<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/the-uranus-opposition-in-astrology\/\">Uranus opposition <\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">at age 40. Working at the Nick Tsamoutales law\u00a0firm\u00a0was a real motivator for conscious evolution and not only because they had the longest hours and lowest pay of any legal office in the area. \u00a01992 was a pivotal time in my spiritual awakening when I was practicing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/awakeningself.com\/writing\/igniting-tapas-discipline\/\">tapas\/austerities<\/a> and putting myself through many disciplines and deprivations. I&#8217;d just left working for Judge Stanley Wolfman in Rockledge 30 miles north. I wasn&#8217;t yet ready to work full time for myself. Al&#8217;s office was close to home and he was fun in the interview. Al had a mixed legal practice and I had experience in everything he did and knew the software. The pay was half the going rate but I took the job as a &#8220;deprivation&#8221; to work through, to overcome my belief I had to make a certain amount of money each week. To see what spiritual lesson I might gain by my self imposed &#8220;poverty.&#8221; Al was a fun guy, he got along with everyone. \u00a0He had a few shady clients (which likely got him into his current mess) and I later went into business with one of them, Steve G. Smith. I left when Nick&#8217;s paralegal showed him my\u00a0Yellow Pages ad for legal document preparation under the name Andrea&#8217;s Legal Ease. \u00a0I thought what I did on my own time was no one&#8217;s business but he saw it as a conflict and fired me. \u00a0As I was packing my desk, Steve approached me about doing collection work for local veterinarian offices he knew, so we went into business together. For a short time. \u00a0Steve<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0acted dishonorably during our venture and I got a good lesson. But Al,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Al was always a real cool guy. Today is his 4 year anniversary of being in custody. It looks like he got home for the holidays &#8212;<\/span>&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wftv.com\/news\/local\/brevard-lawyer-detained-ecuador-after-skipping-tow\/287839653\">Brevard lawyer detained in Ecuador after skipping town before grand theft trial<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/recalling-al-lagano\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Recalling Al Lagano&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/recalling-al-lagano\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/recalling-al-lagano\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/recalling-al-lagano\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Recalling%20Al%20Lagano&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/recalling-al-lagano\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al \u00a0was the attorney I worked for when (astrologially) I hit my Uranus opposition at age 40. Working at the Nick Tsamoutales law\u00a0firm\u00a0was a real motivator for conscious evolution and not only because they had the longest hours and lowest pay of any legal office in the area. \u00a01992 was a pivotal time in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45356,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45352\/revisions\/45356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}