{"id":1511,"date":"2007-04-15T23:34:02","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T06:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/approaching-romance\/"},"modified":"2007-04-15T23:34:02","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T06:34:02","slug":"approaching-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/approaching-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"Approaching romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it&#8217;s the cold\/flu thing that&#8217;s been sacking my will to live.  Or, maybe it&#8217;s that I just suck completely at specific date recalls and human emotion.<\/p>\n<p>Today-ish is when M. and I have an anniversary.  Tax day figures into the early lore, but the first meeting is a bit before.  Tax day we both remember.<\/p>\n<p>About four years ago we started the liasing.  So far, so good, I do believe.  His knuckleheadedness seems to dovetail nicely with my knuckleheadedness.  We still laugh.  We still smile.  And, now we have our peaceful, walking life, in which a Sunday night dinner is followed by a stroll to the local independent bookseller and the ice cream shop.<\/p>\n<p>If it weren&#8217;t my actual existence, I would barf all over my shoes at the cloying sweetness, the fairytale, hand-holding giggling togetherness.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose if I wasn&#8217;t feeling tired and sorry for my sick self and bored with phlegm in its various incarnations, I would show the boy-o some warmth and caring.  But, love means whining repeatedly for an entire weekend and coughing someone awake pre-dawn, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/approaching-romance\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it&#8217;s the cold\/flu thing that&#8217;s been sacking my will to live. Or, maybe it&#8217;s that I just suck completely at specific date recalls and human emotion. Today-ish is when M. and I have an anniversary. Tax day figures into the early lore, but the first meeting is a bit before. Tax day we both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8wYr-on","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}