{"id":60737,"date":"2012-12-12T06:19:30","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T11:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=60737"},"modified":"2013-02-01T12:34:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T17:34:00","slug":"even-the-most-monogamy-inclined-among-us-might-emerge-from-a-break-up-acting-like-amish-teens-on-rumspringa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=60737","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Even the most monogamy-inclined among us might emerge from a break-up acting like Amish teens on Rumspringa.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An incredible essay called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2012\/12\/my-superpower-is-being-alone-forever-newly-single\">My Superpower Is Being Alone Forever<\/a>, by Joe Berkowitz, with beautiful illustrations by Joanna Neborsky. <\/p>\n<p>A quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first few days of being alone again hit like OxyContin withdrawal. Or, at the very least, like a juice cleanse. Only instead of toxins leaving my body, about a shallow lagoon of Merlot floods into it. All the many things I took for granted about the relationship appreciate in value as they suddenly become unavailable. So many inside jokes and dumb little rituals lined up in my mind like a continental breakfast buffet, wheeled away by an overly officious concierge just as I arrive, famished.<\/p>\n<p>This absence manifests itself everywhere. I&#8217;m keenly aware of a certain G-chat window&#8217;s negative space on my computer screen all day. Unfortunate coworker fashion choices go criminally underreported. The pertinent details of which falafel place I did for lunch are lost to the ages. My day&#8217;s narrative simply loses its primary audience, as though cancelled due to low ratings and frequent profanity. I could continue the broadcast on Facebook, dispatching glossy post-breakup PR or the romantic distress bat-signal of Sade lyrics, but being heard is not the same as feeling known. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An incredible essay called My Superpower Is Being Alone Forever, by Joe Berkowitz, with beautiful illustrations by Joanna Neborsky. A quote: The first few days of being alone again hit like OxyContin withdrawal. Or, at the very least, like a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=60737\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60737"}],"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=60737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62392,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60737\/revisions\/62392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}