{"id":1569,"date":"2005-08-17T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-17T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2005\/08\/17\/time-and-space-he-wrote-the-word-city-on-my-arm-with-his-finger-and-i-almost-cried\/"},"modified":"2005-08-17T12:29:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-17T12:29:00","slug":"time-and-space-he-wrote-the-word-city-on-my-arm-with-his-finger-and-i-almost-cried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2005\/08\/17\/time-and-space-he-wrote-the-word-city-on-my-arm-with-his-finger-and-i-almost-cried\/","title":{"rendered":"time and space: he wrote the word city on my arm with his finger and I almost cried."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yayatan\/34803138\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos21.flickr.com\/34803138_53569abf12_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yayatan\/34803138\/\">Tokyo City View @ Mori Tower<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/yayatan\/\">Ya Ya<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n<p>I reset my alarm, but forgot to turn it back on after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/mocks\/\">Ryan<\/a> left. Silly me, I fail at mornings. I woke up though at exactly the right time, my door buzzer more persistent than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/08\/12\/the_light_of_the_dis.html\">my hollow lack of dreams<\/a>. Outside the window was a courier truck. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/michel_lacombe\/\">Michel<\/a> has sent me more comic books, an odd thing to find out first thing in the morning. There&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/michel-lacombe.dyndns.org\/JMPIS\">a Jesus Monkey Pants t-shirt<\/a>, which I would wear today if it weren&#8217;t that I&#8217;ve got a job interview this afternoon at one o&#8217;clock. <i>Thank you, dear, they&#8217;re much appreciated and maybe just what I need. When is good to call?<\/i> I read the three Dreaming, <u>Weird Romance<\/u>, and it occurred to me that if I were a better person, more attuned to expectations, it would have struck me bitterly. As it was, I finished the three then got up for my shower, thinking only that it&#8217;s sad that he hasn&#8217;t called me. I wonder at myself, that there&#8217;s no explosion of hateful verbal diarrhea waiting, only a sadness too deep for me to reach bottom in that wants an explanation. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.occult.ca\/kurrs\/\">Chris<\/a> said something to me on Monday night that&#8217;s been stuck in my head, still quietly humming in my ears. We were talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/seejackrun\/\">Amanda<\/a> coming home, of what would happen, of an unknowable future. I said, &#8220;Dear, I understand. I am terrified of mine.&#8221; He replied, &#8220;Yes, but see, I <i>like<\/i> the person I&#8217;m in love with, so I&#8217;m merely scared.&#8221;<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo City View @ Mori Tower Originally uploaded by Ya Ya. I reset my alarm, but forgot to turn it back on after Ryan left. Silly me, I fail at mornings. I woke up though at exactly the right time, my door buzzer more persistent than my hollow lack of dreams. Outside the window was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2005\/08\/17\/time-and-space-he-wrote-the-word-city-on-my-arm-with-his-finger-and-i-almost-cried\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;time and space: he wrote the word city on my arm with his finger and I almost cried.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[155,278,355,342],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flickr","tag-matthew","tag-michel","tag-ryan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}