{"id":699,"date":"2009-09-04T11:42:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T19:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=699"},"modified":"2009-09-04T11:42:12","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T19:42:12","slug":"you-were-so-happy-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2009\/09\/04\/you-were-so-happy-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"you were so happy last night"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>One day I will make you fork the word feelings, because depending on context, it can be a cop out. Not to say it makes you less right, but feelings are just a MEDIUM, and if somebody has a problem with the CONTENT of your feelings, it&#8217;s a bit disingenuous to tell yourself or anybody else that the problem was expressing your feelings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was telling my counselor the &#8216;I am afraid my feelings cause a burden&#8217; story recently, catalyzed by a discussion of vulnerability and trust, and she laughed. She then apologized, but it wasn&#8217;t necessary. It was clear she wasn&#8217;t laughing at me, or necessarily my plight, but at the irony and absurdness that is self-evident when you hear that story after you already know what happened afterward.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a bit of comfort in that laugh, because I think it&#8217;s absurd, but it hurt, and since I tend to give the benefit of the doubt, it&#8217;s nice that it is so absurd to her that she can&#8217;t not laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day I will make you fork the word feelings, because depending on context, it can be a cop out. Not to say it makes you less right, but feelings are just a MEDIUM, and if somebody has a problem with the CONTENT of your feelings, it&#8217;s a bit disingenuous to tell yourself or anybody [&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\/699"}],"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=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}