{"id":11424,"date":"2021-12-20T09:20:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T14:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=11424"},"modified":"2021-12-20T09:28:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T14:28:13","slug":"yes-it-was-like-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/11424","title":{"rendered":"Yes, It Was Like That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has this &#8220;Memories&#8221; feature that will show you all your posts on this day, all the way back to when you first signed on. So today I got all the posts I ever made on December 20. Among them are my posts from ten years ago about buying a Mercedes diesel &#8216;E&#8217; class sedan. So my car is now 10 years old. It had six miles on the odometer when I took delivery on it, I&#8217;ve put almost 160k on it since, and it&#8217;s still a champ. A Mercedes diesel is a much better road trip car than I imagined it would be. It&#8217;s the car I want to drive to the end of the road with.<\/p>\n<p>A few more years back on this date&#8230;was this&#8230;from a better time after my reunion with a certain someone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/angrychcolate.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11425\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/angrychcolate.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/angrychcolate.png 520w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/angrychcolate-300x85.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/thechocolateweapon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11426\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/thechocolateweapon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/thechocolateweapon.png 490w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/thechocolateweapon-300x67.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a weapon that served me well for about another few years. These Facebook memories can stab you right in the heart sometimes. But they&#8217;re good for inoculating you against gaslighting. He was signing his emails to me &#8216;T&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has this &#8220;Memories&#8221; feature that will show you all your posts on this day, all the way back to when you first signed on. So today I got all the posts I ever made on December 20. Among them are my posts from ten years ago about buying a Mercedes diesel &#8216;E&#8217; class sedan. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[134,190],"class_list":["post-11424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-gay","tag-the-gay-kid-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}