{"id":355,"date":"2007-04-03T17:29:13","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T17:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=355"},"modified":"2007-11-17T01:09:53","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T01:09:53","slug":"id-kiss-him-if-hed-let-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/03\/id-kiss-him-if-hed-let-me\/","title":{"rendered":"i&#8217;d kiss him.  if he&#8217;d let me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/02\/red-tape\/\">Continued&#8230;<\/a><\/em><br \/>\nI tend to lose touch with friends when they move away.  I don&#8217;t correspond well and I&#8217;m always caught up in too much drama to worry about anyone else.  I know.  It&#8217;s selfish.  I&#8217;m working on it. <\/p>\n<p>Peter and I have been friends for a while.  A short while&#8230;just over a year.  But it&#8217;s remarkable because he spent the year being a little globe trotter while I spent it in boondocks USA.  Not anymore.  He&#8217;s back in England&#8230;for now&#8230;and so am I. <\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t seen him in nine months but somehow we&#8217;ve managed to stay friends. He thinks I&#8217;m funny.  And when it was four a.m. for him and he&#8217;d had too much scotch it was usually still a decent hour for me back in America.  So he called and I liked it because, you know, international dialage is cool. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway,  we had a <em>thing<\/em> two months in.   A year and nine weeks ago to be precise.  I don&#8217;t usually count like that, like a girl.  But he&#8217;s one of the reasons I chose Manchester over London.  And he&#8217;s on his way over.   <\/p>\n<p>My ears are starting to ring.  I thought I was over <em>that. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>22 August 1998<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(<em>Footnote: Peter = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/31\/not-so-super-model\/\">this guy<\/a>. <\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/09\/peter-peter\/\"><em>Continued&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continued&#8230; I tend to lose touch with friends when they move away. I don&#8217;t correspond well and I&#8217;m always caught up in too much drama to worry about anyone else. I know. It&#8217;s selfish. I&#8217;m working on it. Peter and I have been friends for a while. A short while&#8230;just over a year. But it&#8217;s<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}