{"id":123,"date":"2004-10-04T02:28:36","date_gmt":"2004-10-04T02:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/?p=123"},"modified":"2004-10-04T02:28:36","modified_gmt":"2004-10-04T02:28:36","slug":"one-misstep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"one misstep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, it smells like something is burning.<\/p>\n<p>Is that only me trying to set something aflame?  Because I can\\&#8217;t let something sit.  Sit?<\/p>\n<p>It\\&#8217;s hard to be me sometimes.<br \/>\nIsn\\&#8217;t it easier to be irrational?<br \/>\nTo make the water rumble<br \/>\nthan to leave it calm<br \/>\nand ask the sailors to come home?<\/p>\n<p>Don\\&#8217;t let the melody remind me of what it used to be.  I can\\&#8217;t help but listen to the same songs over and over again, reminding me of what naivete I lost myself in.  I don\\&#8217;t even remember why I downloaded those songs, only that I was listening to them when I said something.  Said something intense, important to you.<\/p>\n<p>So Chris imed me today but didn\\&#8217;t give a reason why.  So I bantered&#8230;a bit then asked him why.  I guess because of what I had said drove him away.  I just feel completely apathetic.  When I asked again why he had talked to me?  He simply said that he needed to lie down and he disappeared.  So I gave up on that and took a shower.<\/p>\n<p>But it\\&#8217;s not that&#8230;that bothers me.  It\\&#8217;s the fact that there\\&#8217;s Dang and I haven\\&#8217;t really&#8230;done so much bad to him.  Yet, I feel so awkward.  Is it better to confront my discomfort just so that I feel settled again?  But it\\&#8217;s the discomfort that would drive me away again.  I feel guilt for leaving him unanswered.<\/p>\n<p>And.  I feel like I say too much about myself.  That I do the drama.  That I annoy people.  This is where I want to say less.  But saying less is withdrawal.  In some way, that\\&#8217;s almost like&#8230;avoidance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, it smells like something is burning. Is that only me trying to set something aflame? Because I can\\&#8217;t let something sit. Sit? It\\&#8217;s hard to be me sometimes. Isn\\&#8217;t it easier to be irrational? To make the water rumble than to leave it calm and ask the sailors to come home? Don\\&#8217;t let the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/?p=123\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">one misstep<\/span><\/a><\/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-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}