{"id":3363,"date":"2005-07-14T08:42:44","date_gmt":"2005-07-14T12:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2024-10-27T18:44:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T22:44:07","slug":"i-cant-let-it-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3363","title":{"rendered":"I Can&#8217;t Let It Go."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t leave the world of the high-school reunion yet.  I can&#8217;t get enough.  I want more.  I want our entire group to get together every weekend if possible.  hahahaha<\/p>\n<p>I am already on the planning committee for the next one &#8211; along with Betsy, Mere, Beth, and Leo.  WHOO-HOO.  The emails have already flown back and forth &#8211; where to have it, should it be a cruise, a clambake &#8230; should we have a cruise AND a clambake?  Should we have a buffet table?  Venue discussions &#8230;.  (Lisa, we might go for a multi-day event next time, like <a href=\"http:\/\/thislife.typepad.com\/this_life\/2005\/07\/where_did_the_t.html\">you had for yours<\/a>..  God help us all.)<\/p>\n<p>Let the good times roll.<\/p>\n<p>The ironic thing is that I really disliked high school, actually.  I didn&#8217;t start to blossom until college &#8211; which is where I started to feel powerful, feel like I knew a little bit who I was, I felt pretty in college &#8211; for the first time ever &#8230; College was a true release for me and I had a sense that that would be true, which is partly why I despised high school so much, and couldn&#8217;t wait to get out of what I fondly called &#8220;that hellhole institution&#8221;.  But seeing everyone as adults has been poignant, piercing, fun, overwhelming &#8230; and I am an emotional addict.<\/p>\n<p>Gimme drugs, gimme drugs &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t leave the world of the high-school reunion yet. I can&#8217;t get enough. I want more. I want our entire group to get together every weekend if possible. hahahaha I am already on the planning committee for the next &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3363\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194968,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions\/194968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}