{"id":2049,"date":"2012-07-31T13:54:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T18:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2012-07-31T13:54:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T18:54:23","slug":"as-hokey-as-it-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=2049","title":{"rendered":"as hokey as it sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable?<br \/>\nOr was I miserable because I listened to pop music?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I wish I could place this one in time.<\/p>\n<p>Hotel room.  Wide awake, staring at the popcorn texture on the pale blue ceiling.  Headphones on.  Richard Marx, &#8220;Endless Summer Nights.&#8221;  Promise Keepers conference.  Atlanta.  Had just a man enter a hotel room with what looked like a prostitute a few minutes before, and had that disturbing image flitting around my mind.  But I remember wishing, wanting, feeling.  Trying to let myself fall into the emotion of loving someone, and capture that for as long as I could.<\/p>\n<p>When was it?  Who did I love?  Who was I then?<\/p>\n<p><em>so raise your hands to heaven and pray<br \/>\nthat we&#8217;ll be back together someday<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music? I wish I could place this one in time. Hotel room. Wide awake, staring at the popcorn texture on the pale blue ceiling. Headphones on. Richard Marx, &#8220;Endless Summer Nights.&#8221; Promise Keepers conference. Atlanta. Had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}