{"id":552,"date":"2009-04-26T03:29:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T08:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=552"},"modified":"2009-05-11T00:14:57","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T04:14:57","slug":"worn-wood-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=552","title":{"rendered":"Lesbian in Amherst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I have once again overcome the sensible urgings of the sleeping pills I took several hours ago.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is nothing to say.&#8221;  That&#8217;s a blatant lie.  &#8220;There&#8217;s a book in me.&#8221;  So&#8217;s that.  &#8220;I&#8217;d rather sleep than eat.&#8221;  That&#8217;s closer to true, at least right now because I&#8217;m stuffed.  <\/p>\n<p>Time to redesign.  A simple plan, one that offers one post per page, like My First Site.  Delving into this should not start at 4:00 AM, so all I&#8217;ll do now is talk about it.  <\/p>\n<p>I picked up my bag full of miracles the other night, and I told the pharmacist when he asked if my address was the same, &#8220;It&#8217;ll be famous someday because I lived there.&#8221;  Right, I&#8217;ll be like a lesbian in Amherst, and they&#8217;ll be traipsing in and out of my worn wood room, like Emily&#8217;s.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sad when the best use of time is sleep.  Sadder still when light is no reason to rise.  And perhaps there is nothing sadder than waiting for the light before I lay me down to sleep.  <\/p>\n<p>I hate people.  I love people only from afar, as the Polar Bears do, who see beyond their own extinction, from an in-extinctable perspective, to places we refuse to see.  They don&#8217;t resent us.  They are free of hate.  They know we hate ourselves enough to make up for it.  <\/p>\n<p>I never read; I feel guilty for it.  Like not reading is the root of all evil.  Like reading cures.  Maybe if I&#8217;d read three books a week, I could have been a writer.  <\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/exliontamer.wordpress.com\/\">exliontamer<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I have once again overcome the sensible urgings of the sleeping pills I took several hours ago. &#8220;There is nothing to say.&#8221; That&#8217;s a blatant lie. &#8220;There&#8217;s a book in me.&#8221; So&#8217;s that. &#8220;I&#8217;d rather sleep than eat.&#8221; That&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=552\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[898,4],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-pharmacist","tag-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}