{"id":171,"date":"2005-01-26T00:12:35","date_gmt":"2005-01-26T00:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/?p=171"},"modified":"2005-01-26T00:12:35","modified_gmt":"2005-01-26T00:12:35","slug":"can-i-say-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"can i say that&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I finally got a response back from one of my valued friends&#8230;and she said \\&#8221;don\\&#8217;t do it.  don\\&#8217;t go after someone who has emotional baggage.\\&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It\\&#8217;s sound advice, and yet sometimes you can\\&#8217;t control what you feel.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I think I got myself stuck in a mind trap.  I don\\&#8217;t want to be interested, yet I feel myself drawn?  The problem is I wonder if I like him because of him or because the possibility of being NON-alone is there.<\/p>\n<p>And if it did happen, I have a prepared statement: <i>Even though I feel myself being pulled toward, I don\\&#8217;t think I could do it, because you\\&#8217;re not whole yet&#8211;you\\&#8217;re still not over Helen.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>But we all know how easily people can start going into denial.  Hopefully, rationality will stand up.<\/p>\n<p>He randomly imed me&#8230;then followed up with a \\&#8221;you know, i like talking to you, because I can say anything to you.\\&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I always end up in that position, don\\&#8217;t I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I finally got a response back from one of my valued friends&#8230;and she said \\&#8221;don\\&#8217;t do it. don\\&#8217;t go after someone who has emotional baggage.\\&#8221; It\\&#8217;s sound advice, and yet sometimes you can\\&#8217;t control what you feel. Of course, I think I got myself stuck in a mind trap. I don\\&#8217;t want to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/?p=171\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">can i say that&#8230;<\/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-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","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=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}