{"id":3389,"date":"2011-02-28T23:25:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T07:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3389"},"modified":"2011-02-28T23:25:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T07:25:35","slug":"there-were-once-admirers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3389","title":{"rendered":"There were once admirers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lyrical,&#8221; one guy more than 15 years my senior once said.  &#8220;You&#8217;re so lyrical.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I wrote long essays about nothing\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthey appeared insightful and deep.  And yet when conversing with me, I would spout off shallow insecurities and naive anxieties.<\/p>\n<p>I remember when there were once admirers standing in front of my metaphorical doorstep.   I wrote about the sunshine providing the light in the darkness, the curiosity I had in the grocery store line, and the love&#8230;that was so superbly naive.<\/p>\n<p>What if all of them were just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/27\/fashion\/27Modern.html?ref=modernlove\">self-indulgent as the latest article states<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Did those essays ever explicitly become who I am?<\/p>\n<p>I once said that my standard for the significant other required that he speak more than me.  And he does.  But oddly enough, with that, he&#8217;s not interested in reading my lyrical words\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhe would rather hear me say them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lyrical,&#8221; one guy more than 15 years my senior once said. &#8220;You&#8217;re so lyrical.&#8221; I wrote long essays about nothing\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthey appeared insightful and deep. And yet when conversing with me, I would spout off shallow insecurities and naive anxieties. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3389\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-3389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3390,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions\/3390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}