{"id":8768,"date":"2016-03-09T09:52:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T14:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=8768"},"modified":"2016-03-09T09:55:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T14:55:14","slug":"summers-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/8768","title":{"rendered":"Summer&#8217;s Coming&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling Wonderful. Aren&#8217;t breakup fights supposed to make you miserable? Well&#8230;we weren&#8217;t boyfriends, just, for a while, casual long distance friends, never to be anything more than that. But we had a past. I would have walked through fire for him. But not into the closet for him. That turned out to be the sticking point.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah it hurts. But not badly at all, as it turns out. Mostly it feels like I have my life back, like it&#8217;s been reset back to before <a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/380\">the time I found him again<\/a>, and everything I had then and everything I felt then, I have back now. I&#8217;m not kidding&#8230;I&#8217;m feeling ten&#8230;twenty years younger. (grin) Now if I only looked it.<\/p>\n<p>I came back home and the weather here in Charm City is feeling spring like and I&#8217;m really looking forward to summer. It&#8217;s stunning to realize I wasn&#8217;t before. It was just something that was out there. Now it feels like the open road beckoning. Like life always felt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8769\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0017.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0017\" width=\"434\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling Wonderful. Aren&#8217;t breakup fights supposed to make you miserable? Well&#8230;we weren&#8217;t boyfriends, just, for a while, casual long distance friends, never to be anything more than that. But we had a past. I would have walked through fire for him. But not into the closet for him. That turned out to be 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":[145,190],"class_list":["post-8768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-a-life","tag-the-gay-kid-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8768","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=8768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}