{"id":370,"date":"2007-03-27T10:15:01","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T10:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=370"},"modified":"2007-11-17T01:10:32","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T01:10:32","slug":"007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/27\/007\/","title":{"rendered":"007ish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/21\/my-first-beer-almost\/\">Continued&#8230;<\/a><\/em><br \/>\nI agreed to meet Eliza at something called Mancunian Way.  She said &#8220;Tell the bus driver and he&#8217;ll let you know when to get off&#8221; and that&#8217;s exactly what I did.  I had to pretend like someone had a gun to my head though.  Like I was James Bond and a baddie with an automatic was saying <em>step this way<\/em>.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s not healthy but I don&#8217;t care.   We all have defense mechanisms.  Mine use to be my hair.  Now it&#8217;s Bond because, you know, I can totally pretend to be a man.  I have no problem with that.  The spy thing either.  The whole &#8216;imagine everyone else naked&#8217; has never worked for me.  Bond.  James Bond. Does.  It got me on the bus &#8230; a double decker. <\/p>\n<p>I sat upstairs and upfront and it was the most exciting thing I&#8217;ve ever done in my life.   I know.  Sad, huh.  There was some light left and I could see EVERYTHING.  The perfect square houses and the perfect square yards.  The traffic lights on traffic poles and the little tiny cars.  I could feel my throat close up and I just wanted to laugh because&#8230;I&#8217;m here!   I&#8217;m doing it.  Me.  Buffy.  The girl who got too homesick to go away to school&#8230;is now away to school. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never loved being by myself like this.  But I do now, tonight.  I love being alone.  Being in another country.  On my own.  For good and for ever.   I can do anything.  If I just act like Bond. <\/p>\n<p><em>19 August 1998<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/29\/convenience\/\">Continued&#8230;<\/a><\/em><\/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 agreed to meet Eliza at something called Mancunian Way. She said &#8220;Tell the bus driver and he&#8217;ll let you know when to get off&#8221; and that&#8217;s exactly what I did. I had to pretend like someone had a gun to my head though. Like I was James Bond and a baddie with an<!-- 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-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","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=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}