{"id":404,"date":"2006-11-15T02:50:59","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T02:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/?p=404"},"modified":"2006-11-15T02:50:59","modified_gmt":"2006-11-15T02:50:59","slug":"walgreens-and-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/?p=404","title":{"rendered":"Walgreens and cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking down the aisle in Walgreens looking for toilet bowl cleaner when it dawned on me that I act this way every single time.  Surrounded by mops and brooms, staring at the common object, I knew that in a year, I would have the hindsight to feel what I should have been feeling.<\/p>\n<p>I can\\&#8217;t help liking Chris so much.  And I question whether I am more enamored by the thought of being with him than him.  In most cases, it\\&#8217;s always the former.  And I get caught up in obsession.  Right now, I am trying to keep myself from falling and tripping as I always do.<\/p>\n<p>I have a feeling that I may have messed up.  The way that I have a tendency to confess everything that is on my mind.  I don\\&#8217;t know.  And sometimes I am squeamish and just want to forget that it happened even as much as I want it, then I want to forget, then I want to play the avoidance game and swallow the pain, the heartbreak and move on.  But I don\\&#8217;t want to if I don\\&#8217;t have to.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn\\&#8217;t it be so much easier if he just said no?<br \/>\n<i>Just let what happens&#8230;happen<\/i><\/p>\n<p>But if anything, I am tired of being alone.  I am tired of being single and only looking forward to a night struggling for my own independence.  In this world of twos, I am usually ok with walking by myself, but when I have to sit at a table for two, I am reminded that pairs are always the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking down the aisle in Walgreens looking for toilet bowl cleaner when it dawned on me that I act this way every single time. Surrounded by mops and brooms, staring at the common object, I knew that in a year, I would have the hindsight to feel what I should have been feeling. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/?p=404\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Walgreens and cold<\/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-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","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=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}