{"id":10615,"date":"2014-05-04T04:46:36","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T04:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/05\/04\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-i-2\/"},"modified":"2014-05-04T04:46:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T04:46:36","slug":"skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-i-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/05\/04\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-i-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/skinnydefenselessheroism.tumblr.com\/post\/84686707588\/iamthefirechild-i-mean-i-want-to-stop\">skinnydefenselessheroism<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/84682421814\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-i\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I mean \u2026 I want to stop feeling like I\u2019m not worth anything unless I\u2019m important to someone else.&#8221; Now she\u2019s studying the palms of her hands like the secrets of the universe might be hidden in them. &#8220;I want to \u2014 &#8221; She blows out a breath. &#8220;I don\u2019t ever want to try to be something I\u2019m not so someone will notice me again. And I need to know who I am so I know who not to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<em>Ahh<\/em>.\u201d Stiles says, and he nods, his head tipping back as if that explains some deep secret of the universe. \u201cI gotcha. I guess I mostly came to the conclusion that people are probably not gonna appreciate much who I am, and I can\u2019t actually help that at all. But, hey, maybe it helps that I\u2019ve got Scott, he\u2019s literally never once asked me to be anything but what I am so I\u2019ve kind of been like, well,\u00a0<em>screw the rest of the world<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, well, people don&#8217;t like me, mostly. I&#8217;m &#8230; used to that. I&#8217;m not \/nice\/. I don&#8217;t meet their expectations.&#8221; She slants a glance at him, green-eyed and curious. &#8220;I never had a Scott. You&#8217;re lucky. Almost everyone I know has wanted me to be someone different.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>skinnydefenselessheroism: iamthefirechild: &#8220;I mean \u2026 I want to stop feeling like I\u2019m not worth anything unless I\u2019m important to someone else.&#8221; Now she\u2019s studying the palms of her hands like the secrets of the universe might be hidden in them. &#8220;I want to \u2014 &#8221; She blows out a breath. &#8220;I don\u2019t ever want to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/05\/04\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-i-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <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":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,867,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10615"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}