{"id":5265,"date":"2011-11-13T08:58:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T13:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=5265"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:02:03","slug":"message-in-a-bottle-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/5265","title":{"rendered":"Message In A Bottle&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if you know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_6270.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5266\" title=\"IMG_6270\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_6270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_6270.png 650w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_6270-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230;I wonder if you know&#8230;if you understand, really, that all this time, when I&#8217;ve been showing you this stuff I&#8217;m into&#8230;all the things I do nowadays, all the things I have accomplished, all the things going on in my life&#8230;that I&#8217;m not bragging. \u00a0Really&#8230;I&#8217;m not. \u00a0Sometimes I think that&#8217;s how you take it. \u00a0But that&#8217;s not it at all. All this time I&#8217;ve been trying to prove to you that I&#8217;m worthy of your time. \u00a0<em>I&#8217;m trying to impress you.<\/em> I&#8217;ve been trying all this time, to convince you that I&#8217;m not the dweeby little nerd you saw way back when, who kept gawking at you like he&#8217;d just seen an angel&#8230;who kept embarrassing you in front of your friends&#8230;that you were always losing patience with.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230;well&#8230;yes&#8230;I guess I still am. \u00a0But I can <em>Do <\/em>things. \u00a0I have accomplished stuff. \u00a0It isn&#8217;t bragging. \u00a0I&#8217;ve not been bragging at you all this time. \u00a0It isn&#8217;t gloating. \u00a0You act sometimes like you think I am. \u00a0I&#8217;m not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve been making you offerings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if you know&#8230; &#8230;I wonder if you know&#8230;if you understand, really, that all this time, when I&#8217;ve been showing you this stuff I&#8217;m into&#8230;all the things I do nowadays, all the things I have accomplished, all the things going on in my life&#8230;that I&#8217;m not bragging. \u00a0Really&#8230;I&#8217;m not. \u00a0Sometimes I think that&#8217;s how [&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":[77],"class_list":["post-5265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-the-dumpsville-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265","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=5265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13976,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265\/revisions\/13976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}