{"id":2100,"date":"2008-11-04T18:05:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T23:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2008-11-04T18:05:54","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T23:05:54","slug":"stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/2100","title":{"rendered":"Stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would be so nice to have someone to come home to here at Casa del Garrett on any night, but especially tonight.&nbsp; I might not get myself tied up in knots waiting for the outcome in California.&nbsp; But then&#8230;hey&#8230;I&#8217;ve been single for nearly all my life and I should be expert at handling stress all by myself.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If only. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t expect my friends to go to any great lengths to find me dates.&nbsp; But when something that looks like a good match just drops in their fucking laps and they just let it sail off into the sunset with little more then a shrug of the shoulders it&#8217;s hard not to feel betrayed.&nbsp; No&#8230;strike that&#8230;I&#8217;d be in denial not to see that for what it is.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully there are enough good-hearted people in California that come tomorrow morning their gay and lesbian neighbors won&#8217;t have to wonder if their hearts ever really had a home there among them.&nbsp; But if not&#8230;whatever doesn&#8217;t kill us only makes us stronger&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>Not sure if that applies to all the Tequila I&#8217;ll be drinking tonight though&#8230;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be so nice to have someone to come home to here at Casa del Garrett on any night, but especially tonight.&nbsp; I might not get myself tied up in knots waiting for the outcome in California.&nbsp; But then&#8230;hey&#8230;I&#8217;ve been single for nearly all my life and I should be expert at handling stress [&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":[16,77,12],"class_list":["post-2100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-marriage","tag-the-dumpsville-chronicles","tag-the-struggle-for-our-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100","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=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}