{"id":7364,"date":"2011-07-28T23:54:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T06:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/2011\/07\/28\/7364\/"},"modified":"2011-07-29T10:10:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T17:10:09","slug":"7364","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/?p=7364","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Sir Gawain and the Hag<\/a>. I’ve told you the story. Either your beautiful wife can be herself in private and an old hag in public, or a hag in the bedroom and a beautiful woman in public. He lets her choose and by respecting her will, the curse is broken and she’s able to stay in her true form at all times.<\/p>\n

This guy was so handsome. Talking about King Arthur’s knights like the boychild inside the tall dark man. I told him about Gawain. It’s not like he didn’t know.<\/p>\n

Then the night the moon was full, he wanted to see me and I said follow the moon to find me. By a sporting arena, adjacent to a train station, under a double lucky number. And he called from the gate downstairs, asking if it was 88, asking me now that he’d found me, if we could look at the moon together.<\/p>\n

He came up and he believed he was home. I could feel his heartbeat behind the trembling of his hand.<\/p>\n

I want to be with you he said.<\/p>\n

I told him. If we hook up, I won’t take you seriously. If you wait, you might discover the best of me.<\/p>\n

It was the Sir Gawain conundrum.<\/p>\n

He gave me a big long circular spiel. Semantics. Bottom line, he was willing to take the chance. He was over-confident and blinded by his ambition. Bottom line, he made a mistake.<\/p>\n

I knew this would haunt him as it happened. I knew what we were planting in his mind.<\/p>\n

The next day, I told him it would never happen again. I say what I mean and mean what I say and I could not take him seriously. He was dumbfounded. You were so self-involved, you never considered me. I told you if we hooked up, I wouldn’t take you seriously. And the bottom line is, you were willing to take that risk.<\/p>\n

That’s the last time we spoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sir Gawain and the Hag. I’ve told you the story. Either your beautiful wife can be herself in private and an old hag in public, or a hag in the bedroom and a beautiful woman in public. He lets her choose and by respecting her will, the curse is broken and she’s able to stay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-7364","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-7364","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364","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=7364"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7371,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364\/revisions\/7371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}