{"id":5821,"date":"2012-06-03T22:29:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T03:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=5821"},"modified":"2012-06-04T09:02:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T14:02:58","slug":"who-was-i-to-think-id-be-the-lucky-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/5821","title":{"rendered":"Who Was I To Think I&#8217;d Be The Lucky One&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Maybe not,&#8221; she said as we came to the car. &#8220;But maybe that isn&#8217;t so bad. You can&#8217;t love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It&#8217;s too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It&#8217;s just the way the world works.&rdquo; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Sarah Dessen, &#8220;That Summer&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The reason I buy lottery tickets is my luck can&#8217;t be any worse at that then it is in love.  Forty years to get the broken heart I should have got back in high school, but didn&#8217;t because back in 1972 a boy couldn&#8217;t tell anyone he was in love with another boy. <\/p>\n<p>Oh&#8230;am I whining now? Fuck you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Maybe not,&#8221; she said as we came to the car. &#8220;But maybe that isn&#8217;t so bad. You can&#8217;t love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It&#8217;s too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It&#8217;s just the way the [&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-5821","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\/5821","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=5821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}