{"id":255,"date":"2003-01-27T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-27T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=255"},"modified":"2003-01-27T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-27T10:15:00","slug":"haunted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-01\/255-haunted","title":{"rendered":"Haunted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She&#8217;s no longer a part of my life, but lately I&#8217;ve found myself feeling haunted by memories of her. I see her in places I wouldn&#8217;t expect. Is that her over there on the bus? No, it&#8217;s just another girl who looks vaguely similar from the back, the same hair, the same shoulders, and perhaps as she turns around I see the same cute, little, up-turned nose. But it&#8217;s not her. I could never be her.<\/p>\n<p>On TV I see her resemblance in many actresses. But I know it&#8217;s not her. Do they remind me of her, or was it her that reminded me of them in the first place. And why should I suddenly find myself remembering her like this? Perhaps I&#8217;m feeling lonely in this cold Winter air. Or perhaps it&#8217;s finally time for me to forget about her and get on with my life, and this haunting is just my brain&#8217;s way of working through the heartache?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She&#8217;s no longer a part of my life, but lately I&#8217;ve found myself feeling haunted by memories of her. I see her in places I wouldn&#8217;t expect. Is that her over there on the bus? No, it&#8217;s just another girl &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-01\/255-haunted\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}