{"id":6229,"date":"2007-04-11T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T19:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6229"},"modified":"2013-02-01T13:56:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T18:56:29","slug":"junior-high-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6229","title":{"rendered":"Junior High Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading <a href=\"http:\/\/15minutelunch.blogspot.com\/\">Johnny Virgil&#8217;s <\/a>two-part essay about his first real date made me laugh out loud &#8211; like, tears streaming down face laughter &#8211; but also wince, cringe, and at one point &#8211; I seriously gasped out loud at some horrifyingly embarrassing moment.<\/p>\n<p>Awesome essay.  Still crying with laughter.  It starts out with:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let&#8217;s talk about my first real date with a real girl. Before that magical moment, I pretty much exclusively dated my best friend&#8217;s older sister without her knowledge. I also dated <a href=\"http:\/\/marvin.ibest.uidaho.edu\/~heckendo\/Pictures\/linda_ronstadt_black.jpg\">this poster <\/a>of Linda Ronstadt that I hung on the wall near my bed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am so so happy reading writing like that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/15minutelunch.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/mr-smooth-part-one.html\">Mr. Smooth: Part one<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/15minutelunch.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/mr-smooth-part-2.html\">Mr. Smooth: Part two<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Johnny Virgil&#8217;s two-part essay about his first real date made me laugh out loud &#8211; like, tears streaming down face laughter &#8211; but also wince, cringe, and at one point &#8211; I seriously gasped out loud at some horrifyingly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6229\">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":[1],"tags":[2134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6229"}],"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=6229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62493,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6229\/revisions\/62493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}