{"id":3064,"date":"2008-09-13T18:34:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T23:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2008-09-13T18:36:19","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T23:36:19","slug":"the-narratives-we-create-to-keep-us-from-getting-bored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=3064","title":{"rendered":"The narratives we create to keep us from getting bored"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, I was speaking to someone and realized I had confused what she said in her email and thought she meant she was pregnant. From that misunderstanding, I created an entire backstory about when she got pregnant and why. So when she said, no I was calling you<\/em> baby, not saying I am with<\/em> baby, I just had to laugh. <\/p>\n

Today at lunch at Houston’s on Vets with mom, she said she had something she wanted to say and had been holding it in for almost nine months. She said a friend of mine was involved in a three-way liaison with her husband and a guy in California. The reason she knew this was on New Year’s Eve she had crept back to the guest room to go to bed and they had crept in – all three conspiratorially. I told my mom they were more than likely partaking in a little New Year’s cheer, because the man in question is gay – beyond the shadow of a doubt. <\/p>\n

The peach doesn’t fall far from the tree. The drama. The stories. The conspiracies. The truth. It’s all six of one, half a dozen of the other. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night, I was speaking to someone and realized I had confused what she said in her email and thought she meant she was pregnant. From that misunderstanding, I created an entire backstory about when she got pregnant and why. So when she said, no I was calling you baby, not saying I am with baby, I just had to laugh. Today at lunch at Houston’s on Vets with mom, she said she had something… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-Nq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}