{"id":117,"date":"2005-12-05T17:45:24","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T00:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=117"},"modified":"2005-12-05T20:39:48","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T03:39:48","slug":"romantic-semantics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Romantic semantics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over breakfast Sunday morning, The Boy asked, &#8220;Are you label-phobic?&#8221; I was stuffing a really good omlette down my throat at the time and didn&#8217;t hear him clearly. &#8220;What?&#8221; I asked. &#8220;Do you have a phobia of labels?&#8221; he repeated. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is he talking about fashion?&#8221; I wondered to myself. I mean, he is a snazzier dresser than I am. Then it dawned on me. &#8220;Oh, do you mean you and me?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He was. So I rattled off something about how, as an organized person, of course I love labels, I love putting things in their categories, and doesn&#8217;t he know this about me? He said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know. Some people get freaked out about that kind of thing.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, I&#8217;m not afraid of labels.&#8221; I assured him. &#8220;Did you want me to call you my boyfriend?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Only if I can call you my girlfriend,&#8221; he responded. <\/p>\n<p>And so, I left for Portland Friday night to visit the guy I am dating and came back Sunday afternoon from visiting my boyfriend. Good weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over breakfast Sunday morning, The Boy asked, &#8220;Are you label-phobic?&#8221; I was stuffing a really good omlette down my throat at the time and didn&#8217;t hear him clearly. &#8220;What?&#8221; I asked. &#8220;Do you have a phobia of labels?&#8221; he repeated. &#8220;Is he talking about fashion?&#8221; I wondered to myself. I mean, he is a snazzier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}