{"id":293,"date":"2002-04-18T05:01:37","date_gmt":"2002-04-18T10:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=293"},"modified":"2002-04-18T05:01:37","modified_gmt":"2002-04-18T10:01:37","slug":"brief-kisses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"brief kisses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"opWin('http:\/\/lodestar.diary-x.com\/journal.cgi?entry=20020414', 'Popup9074390601', 'toolbar=no,menubar=yes,status=no,left=20,top=10,width=860,height=640,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes');\">These are the musings<\/a> of a poetic heart breathing gently like a warm breeze on a balmy sun-filled afternoon.&nbsp; He makes me sigh; such a sparkling gift, so perfectly bestowed, and brief.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAhhh, the lips.&nbsp;  You <i>can<\/i> keep them, more truly than you can keep any pop lyric which will never be yours alone.&nbsp;  You&#8217;ve kissed others, and so has he.&nbsp;  But those were all different, completely different.&nbsp;  Those others can&#8217;t, and none in the future ever will, bring two together in one small moment, within one small space, sharing a single halting breath in any way even close to the way that you and he did it.&nbsp;  A kiss is an intersection of emotion and moment and neither will ever be the same again, not for you or for him.&nbsp;  Each kiss is as much yours now as it was in the instant you drew back from it.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8230;big strokes, thick scribble, bright colors only.&nbsp;  Warm as your lips <i>are<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the musings of a poetic heart breathing gently like a warm breeze on a balmy sun-filled afternoon.&nbsp; He makes me sigh; such a sparkling gift, so perfectly bestowed, and brief.&nbsp; Ahhh, the lips.&nbsp; You can keep them, more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=293\">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-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","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=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}