{"id":5621,"date":"2018-02-18T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkmince.com\/mood\/2018\/02\/18\/exactly-one-year-ago-i-got-home-from-an-afternoon\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T10:55:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T18:55:21","slug":"exactly-one-year-ago-i-got-home-from-an-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/18\/exactly-one-year-ago-i-got-home-from-an-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"I had his attention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"471\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_2635.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77031\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_2635.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_2635-300x188.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Exactly one year ago, I got home from an afternoon at the Eagle and saw this message from an intriguing cutie. Of course, my questionable self-confidence and overall cynicism about meeting people through apps kept from thinking there was much to it, so I left the message sitting there for a while. But he was REALLY cute and seemed more interesting than the usual options that came my way, so I finally took that initial gesture in good faith and said hello back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We got on well, and even met up in person a few days later and discovered that we REALLY got on well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That two-day gap in which I talked myself into writing something back to that cute dude remains the longest stretch of time that <a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"https:\/\/tmblr.co\/mLkW73pRBzymYXDrxAK7HcA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@mental-missteps<\/a> and I have gone without some kind of interaction during this past year. I\u2019m glad I took that chance. The payoff certainly has been greater than I would have ever guessed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love that dude. SO MUCH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exactly one year ago, I got home from an afternoon at the Eagle and saw this message from an intriguing cutie. Of course, my questionable self-confidence and overall cynicism about meeting people through apps kept from thinking there was much to it, so I left the message sitting there for a while. But he was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/18\/exactly-one-year-ago-i-got-home-from-an-afternoon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I had his attention&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621","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=5621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77032,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions\/77032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}