{"id":13675,"date":"2025-04-21T09:36:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=13675"},"modified":"2025-04-21T09:36:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:36:25","slug":"another-special-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/13675","title":{"rendered":"Another Special Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems I need to add another Special Day to my calendar. Call it, <em>The Sweetness Before The Fall<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a screenshot of a blog post I came across last night, whilst flipping through some old posts referenced in today\u2019s Facebook memories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13676\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/surprise_but_not.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/surprise_but_not.jpg 552w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/surprise_but_not-300x276.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Several months later I got told <em>People who look like that want people who look like that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>God what a naive little twerp I was\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Can anybody who knows me&#8230;anyone at all&#8230;see how affection starved the guy who wrote that is?? I\u2019m like a starving beggar thrilled to be tossed some vague promises of food and shelter when he knows every time he looks in a mirror he doesn\u2019t deserve that sort of attention.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems I need to add another Special Day to my calendar. Call it, The Sweetness Before The Fall. This is a screenshot of a blog post I came across last night, whilst flipping through some old posts referenced in today\u2019s Facebook memories. &nbsp; Several months later I got told People who look like that want [&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":[130],"class_list":["post-13675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-lonelyache"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13675","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=13675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13677,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13675\/revisions\/13677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}