{"id":746,"date":"2005-02-08T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-09T05:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/blog\/?p=746"},"modified":"2005-02-08T22:41:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-09T05:41:00","slug":"746","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/?p=746","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rough day today.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I think you just have to realize that maybe you can&#8217;t have a relationship with a family member, no matter how much you want to. Because it&#8217;s not good for you. And it sucks. It really sucks.<\/p>\n<p>The only nice thing that happened was this meter maid was going to give me a parking ticket because I found myself too upset to drive so I pulled over and got out to get some air. I was on the phone standing next to my car when I saw her writing me up. I asked her not to, that I was standing right there and was about to put money in but she said she had already put my license in. So I just kind of felt resigned, because of all things, this wasn&#8217;t worth fighting over. So I opened my mouth to say, that&#8217;s alright, but instead, I broke down sobbing. She put her arm around me and said, &#8220;It&#8217;s okay,&#8221; very maternally. I told her, &#8220;My brother&#8217;s having surgery right now, &#8221; when that wasn&#8217;t what was making me want to die as much as, my realization that my father has never thought of me as a real person as much as an extension of my mom who he hurts just to get back at her. She asked me if I needed a hug and I said yes. So she hugged me and I told her, I&#8217;m so sorry&#8230;I&#8217;m not doing this just to get out of a ticket. She said, I can tell. And she talked with me for a while.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s what hurt the most, you know? When strangers are kinder to you than your most loved ones. That&#8217;s what really fucking hurts the most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rough day today. Sometimes I think you just have to realize that maybe you can&#8217;t have a relationship with a family member, no matter how much you want to. Because it&#8217;s not good for you. And it sucks. It really sucks. The only nice thing that happened was this meter maid was going to give [&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-746","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-746","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","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=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}