{"id":3555,"date":"2011-02-22T23:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2011\/02\/22\/the-sons-and-daughters-of-hungry-ghosts\/"},"modified":"2011-02-22T23:50:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T23:50:00","slug":"the-sons-and-daughters-of-hungry-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2011\/02\/22\/the-sons-and-daughters-of-hungry-ghosts\/","title":{"rendered":"the sons and daughters of hungry ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He said he was in love with me, but he&#8217;s already forgetting all that taught him, falling back on what&#8217;s easy and available rather than what&#8217;s worth fighting for. It is like we never existed. I see it before he tells me while part of me dies inside, a confession of old bad habits over a dinner that I am too silently upset to eat. I push my fork around, pretending conversation. I have no magic words, no way to explain that would remind him. Inside I wonder if he will one day understand &#8220;meaningful&#8221; or, worse, if in some future, he&#8217;ll say these things and I will no longer care, no longer certain of his worth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He said he was in love with me, but he&#8217;s already forgetting all that taught him, falling back on what&#8217;s easy and available rather than what&#8217;s worth fighting for. It is like we never existed. I see it before he tells me while part of me dies inside, a confession of old bad habits over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2011\/02\/22\/the-sons-and-daughters-of-hungry-ghosts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;the sons and daughters of hungry ghosts&#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":[3],"class_list":["post-3555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555","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=3555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}