{"id":127,"date":"2012-04-18T09:02:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T09:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theliquidlamentations.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2012-11-10T18:59:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T18:59:12","slug":"forged-in-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theliquidlamentations.com\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Forged in Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   I walk in, looking for a glass of wine and nothing more. She obliges. Suddenly, the words that usually flow effortlessly leave me. I try to be witty and charming but fear I am failing miserably. So be it. Out of my class, I suppose. But I leave my number anyway. Hoping to hear something from the object of my affection. And low and behold, I do. What follows in a blur of late nights and fantastic times. Now, to my surprise, I have a woman I love. Life is funny that way; when you&#8217;re not looking, you are found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I walk in, looking for a glass of wine and nothing more. She obliges. Suddenly, the words that usually flow effortlessly leave me. I try to be witty and charming but fear I am failing miserably. So be it. Out of my class, I suppose. But I leave my number anyway. Hoping to hear something &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theliquidlamentations.com\/?p=127\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Forged in Fire&#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":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-gypsy-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theliquidlamentations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theliquidlamentations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theliquidlamentations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theliquidlamentations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theliquidlamentations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/theliquidlamentations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"http:\/\/theliquidlamentations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theliquidlamentations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theliquidlamentations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theliquidlamentations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}