{"id":6668,"date":"2012-11-27T09:10:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T14:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=6668"},"modified":"2012-11-27T11:19:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T16:19:12","slug":"the-shock-you-never-forget-that-changes-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/6668","title":{"rendered":"The Shock You Never Forget, That Changes Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Twitter&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Atrios\"><strong>Atrios<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u008f@<strong>Atrios<\/strong> <\/a>basically my whole life path can be explained by the  fact that a girl refused to kiss me when we were playing spin the  bottle in 8th grade<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Possibly he&#8217;s being a bit ironic there, but it&#8217;s true that time in your life looms larger than all the rest of it combined. \u00a0 <em>Objects are closer than they appear&#8230;<\/em>as the rear view mirror warns.<\/p>\n<p>I had my share, and maybe a bit more than my share, of middle school shocks, but I&#8217;m somewhat grateful I managed to escape that humiliation in grade school because playing that game with the other boys was not an option back in 1968. \u00a0 I say somewhat because living in a world where I could have played that game with the other boys might have left me better able to cope with adulthood, even allowing for a slap in the face like the one Duncan Black got once upon a time. \u00a0 But by 8th grade I was already a pretty disconnected little guy.<\/p>\n<p>My life changing shock didn&#8217;t happen until the summer after I graduated. \u00a0 More on that as <a href=\"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/acos\/acos-main.htm\">A Coming Out Story<\/a> unfolds&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Twitter&#8230; Atrios \u00e2\u20ac\u008f@Atrios basically my whole life path can be explained by the fact that a girl refused to kiss me when we were playing spin the bottle in 8th grade Possibly he&#8217;s being a bit ironic there, but it&#8217;s true that time in your life looms larger than all the rest of it [&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-6668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-lonelyache"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668","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=6668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}