{"id":171,"date":"2001-09-21T14:24:53","date_gmt":"2001-09-21T19:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2001-09-21T14:24:53","modified_gmt":"2001-09-21T19:24:53","slug":"from-today-is-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"From Today is the"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\nFrom <a href=\"http:\/\/members.home.net\/mcsauvage\/2001_09_16_archive.html#5827827\" title=\"the blog entry\">Today is the 14th&#8230;<\/a>: <\/p>\n<div>&#8220;&#8230;and I have a feeling both of us benefitted emotionally from our chat.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nOut of context right there, that quote sounds facetious &#8212; but it is not.&nbsp;  After just a few minutes at <a href=\"http:\/\/members.home.net\/mcsauvage\/\" title=\"http:\/\/members.home.net\/mcsauvage\/\">Sovaj<\/a>&#8216;s site you know.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMaybe my isolative behavior makes me more acutely aware of human warmth and sincerity.&nbsp;  Maybe I&#8217;m just seeing what I hope is there &#8212; but I don&#8217;t think so.&nbsp;  I don&#8217;t think so because there comes with these recognitions of young men who are generous and sensitive a kind of jealousy on my part &#8212; no, it&#8217;s more like a soft lament for the boy in me who always wanted to be generous and sensitive, but never let it out.&nbsp;  That unpretensious sentiment makes me believe that my perception is accurate; that impossibly beautiful young gay men do exist.&nbsp;  And I don&#8217;t mean beautiful <i>that<\/i> way &#8212; I&#8217;ve never seen his picture.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s nice, even if it&#8217;s not me.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Today is the 14th&#8230;: &#8220;&#8230;and I have a feeling both of us benefitted emotionally from our chat.&#8221; Out of context right there, that quote sounds facetious &#8212; but it is not.&nbsp; After just a few minutes at Sovaj&#8216;s site &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=171\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}