{"id":177,"date":"2008-09-14T09:42:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T17:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=177"},"modified":"2008-09-14T09:42:02","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T17:42:02","slug":"on-the-topic-of-smiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2008\/09\/14\/on-the-topic-of-smiles\/","title":{"rendered":"on the topic of smiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had dreams last night. That I don&#8217;t recall having dreams recently is interesting. I don&#8217;t usually remember them, but I feel a weird sense of confusion not being sure if I&#8217;m recalling a past event or merely dreams.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking this morning about &#8220;wearing my heart on my sleeve&#8221; and having strong emotions. Peoples reactions to it have varied, as one would expect with how different they are. Generally, it&#8217;s too strong for people. I would have a hard time definitively naming a situation that my feelings weren&#8217;t a siginifcant catalyst. Saying that kind of feels like I&#8217;m blurring out the point. Sometimes it makes people not hang out with me. It would be difficult to be sure that they didn&#8217;t hang out with me simply because they think I&#8217;m a bore. But I&#8217;ve asked this question and confirmed in the past that they thought I liked them, and I inferred that they didn&#8217;t know how or didn&#8217;t want to deal with that in a communicable fashion. Most, if not all, of the people I have dated and commented on feeling that I was the one that made things move fast. Alright, my fault. It&#8217;s those gosh durn feelings again.<\/p>\n<p>So being single again, what am I to do with that? Something about twelve steps, and punching god in the face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had dreams last night. That I don&#8217;t recall having dreams recently is interesting. I don&#8217;t usually remember them, but I feel a weird sense of confusion not being sure if I&#8217;m recalling a past event or merely dreams. I was thinking this morning about &#8220;wearing my heart on my sleeve&#8221; and having strong emotions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}