{"id":170,"date":"2006-02-19T21:03:26","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T04:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=170"},"modified":"2006-02-21T06:51:35","modified_gmt":"2006-02-21T13:51:35","slug":"dirty-mistresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Mistresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching Gray&#8217;s Anatomy just out of casual boredom and not ready to open my new novel and it&#8217;s an episode where the very hot doctor shows up from the recent past &#8211; Mark &#8211; who had an affair with his best friend and colleague&#8217;s wife &#8211; he said his $400\/hour therapy taught him that under his rugged, self-confident exterior &#8211; he learned inside he is filled with self-loathing and self-deception and that he has a pathological capacity for destruction. [Crush or fade?]<\/p>\n<p>When asked why his wife cheated &#8211; was it because you didn&#8217;t have children? Husband says, I don&#8217;t know. Maybe I was an absent husband.  <\/p>\n<p>Wife said, &#8220;We were all good friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wife asks Mark why he has come back, Mark says, &#8220;I miss you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Side conversation, &#8220;The beast within has been awakened.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Mark says, &#8220;How can you forgive her and not me&#8221; to husband. [Question?]<\/p>\n<p>Mark in bar waiting for wife, &#8220;What if just this once the universe came down on the side of the dirty mistress?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Narrator: Like children we never give up hope.<\/p>\n<p>Fiction, nonfiction, so it goes, art mirrors life, and sometimes reality is more bizarre than fiction. &#8220;No one knows all.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching Gray&#8217;s Anatomy just out of casual boredom and not ready to open my new novel and it&#8217;s an episode where the very hot doctor shows up from the recent past &#8211; Mark &#8211; who had an affair with his best friend and colleague&#8217;s wife &#8211; he said his $400\/hour therapy taught him that under his rugged, self-confident exterior &#8211; he learned inside he is filled with self-loathing and self-deception and that he has a&hellip; <\/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-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-2K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}