{"id":1868,"date":"2010-02-02T21:25:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T21:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/02\/woe_me\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T12:33:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T20:33:38","slug":"woe_me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/02\/woe_me\/","title":{"rendered":"Woe = me"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Doesn't<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that bad, I swear,<\/strong> but a guy\u2019s gotta let off some steam now and then, right? Of course, those long, mopey periods of repeated blows to my self-confidence are punctuated by enough lucidity to realize that even when I catch someone\u2019s eye, I\u2019m often on the other side of the equation feeling a lack of true zing!<\/i>, so I can\u2019t even complain about the total unfairness of it all. Nevertheless, it\u2019s been a while since there has been any real promise of anything, any glimmer of substantial mutual interest of any kind, and the dwindling prospects have been wearing me down lately.<\/p>\n

I try to remind myself, though, that those romance comics always ended on an up note, so we’ll see. As ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not that bad, I swear, but a guy\u2019s gotta let off some steam now and then, right? Of course, those long, mopey periods of repeated blows to my self-confidence are punctuated by enough lucidity to realize that even when I catch someone\u2019s eye, I\u2019m often on the other side of the equation feeling a … Continue reading “Woe = me”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracomics","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77180,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/77180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}