{"id":53,"date":"2007-08-21T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcrampton.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2021-03-05T17:40:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T22:40:51","slug":"here-comes-the-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Here comes the suck."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I felt pangs of loneliness for the first time when I crawled into bed last night.  They were overwhelming.  They felt far more permanent than they could ever be, and thus I felt hopeless.<\/p>\n<p>Depression had <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">snuck<\/span> up on me while I was watching a Eureka episode on DVD.  I crawled into bed, assumed the fetal position, and wanted nothing more than someone to hold me.<\/p>\n<p>There are those that have been flirting with me.  Or, I&#8217;ve grossly misinterpreted standard conversation for advances.  I&#8217;m fairly certain that it&#8217;s been flirting, though.  Anyway, the physical comfort that might come from <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">another&#8217;s<\/span> touch is&#8230; extremely appealing, though obviously dangerous.  With all of the emotional storming that&#8217;s going on inside of me, typical rebound problems are very likely.  This, of course, is ignoring the fact that I&#8217;m still married.  There are a lot of knots yet to be untied, and no paperwork has been filed.  I&#8217;m not about to cheat on my wife.<\/p>\n<p>I knew that this was coming, but I don&#8217;t think that there was a way to steel myself against it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I felt pangs of loneliness for the first time when I crawled into bed last night. They were overwhelming. They felt far more permanent than they could ever be, and thus I felt hopeless. Depression had snuck up on me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=53\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-blogger"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7292,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/7292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}