{"id":3053,"date":"2009-08-28T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/08\/28\/if-it-wasnt-worth-it-then-youve-killed-us-both\/"},"modified":"2009-08-28T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T11:34:00","slug":"if-it-wasnt-worth-it-then-youve-killed-us-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/08\/28\/if-it-wasnt-worth-it-then-youve-killed-us-both\/","title":{"rendered":"if it wasn&#8217;t worth it, then you&#8217;ve killed us both"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love him like fire. Warmth, light. Temptation drives me farther away, of desire, malicious, feigned, humming electric through my body like waking up to a kiss, welcome in the middle of the night. Chorus end, refrain. My hands flex, the desire to blacken his eyes, break his fingers, as I say to him as he clatters down the stairs next to me, invisible as I refuse to look up, &#8220;because that would mean more to you.&#8221; The verses repeated, <i>wait, I love you.<\/i> Funny way of showing it. Every day, a song that sounds the same. Bridge. Sharps, flats. Chorus again, our voices together. Refrain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love him like fire. Warmth, light. Temptation drives me farther away, of desire, malicious, feigned, humming electric through my body like waking up to a kiss, welcome in the middle of the night. Chorus end, refrain. My hands flex, the desire to blacken his eyes, break his fingers, as I say to him as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/08\/28\/if-it-wasnt-worth-it-then-youve-killed-us-both\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;if it wasn&#8217;t worth it, then you&#8217;ve killed us both&#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":[1296,629,3],"class_list":["post-3053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-break-ups","tag-michael","tag-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053","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=3053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}