{"id":1641,"date":"2003-07-18T08:46:38","date_gmt":"2003-07-18T08:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2003-07-18T08:46:38","modified_gmt":"2003-07-18T08:46:38","slug":"going_quackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/going_quackers\/","title":{"rendered":"going quackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/images\/digicam\/like a duck in water.jpg\" class=\"photo\" alt=\"like a duck in water\" title=\"like a duck in water\" \/><\/div>\n<p>i&#8217;m decidedly unhappy at the present.  i spent a lot of time last night working myself in a bloo mood by recalling what i was doing two weeks ago.  remembering the way he touched me and talked to me and loved me.  i suppose i&#8217;m at that point where i&#8217;m wondering if i did the right thing, if i was just scared and didn&#8217;t realize what i truly felt.  that&#8217;s not what&#8217;s really going on, though.  it&#8217;s totally okay for me to miss it because it was wonderful and made me feel wonderful (when i wasn&#8217;t feeling guilty for leading him on).<br \/>\nit&#8217;s the worry that no one else will ever want to touch me and love me which is eating at me now.  i thought it before he came and i&#8217;m sure i&#8217;ll think it after the next one leaves.  it&#8217;s just that, right now, i&#8217;m consumed with the fear i&#8217;ll never be so beautiful in someone else&#8217;s eyes again.  that fear and worry is making me think about contacting him and saying &#8220;i&#8217;m sorry! i was wrong!  please come back.&#8221;<br \/>\nthe persian violet he bought me is having a rocky start in its new home.  i haven&#8217;t quite figured out how much attention it needs from me to thrive.  my african violet delights in neglect, so i&#8217;ve gotten accustomed to ignoring it for weeks then giving it a good, healthy drink and it being pleased as punch with the meager attention it receives.  the persian is a different beast all together.  it demands much more devotion and affection.  it needs me to water it at least twice a week or it starts to pout.  i&#8217;m not used to this level of botanical dedication.  one of us is going to have to adapt to the other&#8217;s level. i hope it learns something from its african neighbour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;m decidedly unhappy at the present. i spent a lot of time last night working myself in a bloo mood by recalling what i was doing two weeks ago. remembering the way he touched me and talked to me and loved me. i suppose i&#8217;m at that point where i&#8217;m wondering if i did the <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/going_quackers\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}