{"id":711,"date":"2005-01-23T02:56:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-23T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/blog\/?p=711"},"modified":"2005-01-23T02:56:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-23T09:56:00","slug":"711","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/?p=711","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the incident on my birthday last year?<\/p>\n<p>I was trashed on 12 shots of Patron. I went back to my place with a few friends. The female friend needed to crash so she asked if she could borrow a t-shirt. We were in my dark bedroom, illuminated only by the light from the closet, and she asks me&#8230;&#8221;Julia&#8230;do you kiss girls?&#8221; And I thought it was a funny theoretical question, having no idea it might be her asking me if I wanted to make out with her. In my mind, she may as well have been asking me, if I owned a rocketship. So I laughed and said, &#8220;No&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I was at a friend&#8217;s birthday party and this friend came up to me and was telling me how her lips tasted like lemon but she didn&#8217;t know why.<\/p>\n<p>I asked her,&#8221;Are you trying to get me to kiss you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said, &#8220;Okay. Last time I was, but not this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then&#8230;convincingly, continued to tell me how her lips tasted lemony.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere in there, I had the sneaking suspicion that, given a good amount of alchohol, I&#8217;m probably horny enough to make-out with anything.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone awake out there at 2:01 am? Can anyone hear me right now?<\/p>\n<p>Just sometimes&#8230;seriously&#8230;I wonder if there&#8217;s really anyone out there.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to that silence roaring back at you&#8230;you can feel it. The possibilities in the dead of the night when the world seems to have stopped&#8211;frozen, in midstep&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anything can happen.<\/p>\n<p>Hello?&#8230;Is anyone there?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the incident on my birthday last year? I was trashed on 12 shots of Patron. I went back to my place with a few friends. The female friend needed to crash so she asked if she could borrow a t-shirt. We were in my dark bedroom, illuminated only by the light from the closet, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sbl5mn-711","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}