{"id":119,"date":"2004-11-25T11:50:53","date_gmt":"2004-11-25T18:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=117"},"modified":"2004-11-25T11:50:53","modified_gmt":"2004-11-25T18:50:53","slug":"kissed-a-girl-and-made-her-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2004\/11\/25\/kissed-a-girl-and-made-her-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"Kissed a girl and made her cry\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"storycontent\">\n<p>Monday night, I left a beautiful girl crying.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been thinking about Montreal. If I end up going, I have to go alone. I need to leave my attachments and start fresh, to see who I am.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&rsquo;t sure how serious she had been about going with me; nor how serious she was about our relationship in general. Turns out she was quite serious about both. It made me realize that while I&rsquo;ve become pretty good at protecting myself from getting hurt in these situations, I need to start paying more attention to how much I can hurt the other person. On the other hand, I&rsquo;m sure this was the right decision; and in the end, perhaps the least painful one.<\/p>\n<p>&ndash;<\/p>\n<p>I high-tailed it up to Port Townsend to spend Thanksgiving with my mom and my step-dad. It&rsquo;s good to get away from Oly for a few days, take a break and maybe get some reading done.<\/p>\n<p>For grad school, I&rsquo;ve decided to apply to five (or so) institutions in various places I think I&rsquo;d like to live, away from everything I know. That way, if I don&rsquo;t get accepted to Montreal, I will still be able to get away and explore; have an adventure of learning and self-discovery. [that sounds so trite] I&rsquo;m bound to get accepted somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>&ndash;<\/p>\n<p>To everyone who reads this [and everyone else too]:<br \/> Happy Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>Focus on the good things in life&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&hellip;like pie.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday night, I left a beautiful girl crying. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been thinking about Montreal. If I end up going, I have to go alone. I need to leave my attachments and start fresh, to see who I am.&rdquo; I wasn&rsquo;t sure how serious she had been about going with me; nor how serious she was about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}