{"id":184,"date":"2019-05-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"inconvenient-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/30\/inconvenient-gratitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Inconvenient gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>We gel rather incongruously,<br \/>\nlike mint in smoke,<br \/>\nchewing gum after two burnt cigarettes.<br \/>\nRefreshing. intoxicating.<br \/>\nA study in chaos.<br \/>\nWe gel rather inconveniently,<br \/>\nlike that half centimetre<br \/>\nbetween your heel and the shoe,<br \/>\nwhich lets the fancy leather<br \/>\ndig into your skin anyway.<br \/>\nWe gel rather particularly,<br \/>\nlike striped dresses on ladies<br \/>\nhoping optical illusions will make<br \/>\nthe extra folds disappear,<br \/>\nas polka dots blush beetroot.<br \/>\nWe gel rather inconveniently,<br \/>\nlike the hunger for more<br \/>\nwhen the last drop of a shared beer<br \/>\ntickles the throat.<br \/>\nBut, it&#8217;s a solo drive home. <br \/>\nWe gel tardily,<br \/>\nlike hour-hand footprints<br \/>\nand minute-hand boot-prints,<br \/>\nchasing and failing<br \/>\nin the muddy snow.<\/p>\n<p>But<br \/>\nLike a trunk hugging vine and<br \/>\na strong WiFi signal,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m grateful for you. <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We gel rather incongruously,  like mint in smoke,  chewing gum after two burnt cigarettes.  Refreshing. intoxicating.  A study in chaos.  We gel rather inconveniently,  like that half centimetre  between your heel and the shoe,  which lets the fancy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}