{"id":23599,"date":"2013-10-17T01:33:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T01:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/17\/redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild-9\/"},"modified":"2015-02-21T02:01:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T02:01:18","slug":"redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/17\/redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild-9\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-23599 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/17\/redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild-9\/attachment\/23600\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/files\/2013\/10\/tumblr_mttl1jAJM61sn7rsqo1_4004-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/redmetalandgold.tumblr.com\/post\/64256471941\/iamthefirechild-redmetalandgold\">redmetalandgold<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/62760420064\/redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/redmetalandgold.tumblr.com\/post\/62758901489\/iamthefirechild-redmetalandgold\">redmetalandgold<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/62758250781\/redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, I trust you to be entirely yourself, Toni.&#8221; Summer shakes her head, slightly. &#8220;It\u2019s me I don\u2019t trust. You\u2019re \/you\/, darling, and \u2014 oh, how do I even explain this?&#8221; She looks at him, and presses her lips together. &#8220;That particular joke \u2014 it\u2019s not a joke to me, it\u2019s \u2014 I\u2019m not gorgeous, Toni, I\u2019m short and skinny and sharp-tongued, and to be quite honest I\u2019m over thirty years old and no one has ever asked me out on a date before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;My first relationship was with an abusive prick,&#8221; he shrugs, scratching his nose when he felt a swell of quick panic. &#8220;I babble too much, I talk too loud, I like to flail my arms a lot and I\u2019m from 1994. Believe me, you\u2019re going to work harder at trying to drive me away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I didn\u2019t know that,&#8221; she says softly. &#8220;Okay. Okay. I\u2019m here, and obviously I\u2019m dressed okay, and we\u2019re both nervous.&#8221; She chuckles briefly. &#8220;Let\u2019s just pretend I didn\u2019t say any of those stupid things, and you tell me where you\u2019re taking me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He gives her a brief smile, leaning in to peck her cheek before looping his arm through her own. \u201cAh, but if I told you then that would ruin the whole surprise,\u201d Toni chuckles. \u201cI promise it will be fun, though. I\u2019ve never had someone complain about my wooing skills.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Is that &#8212; &#8221; Summer clears her throat and tries again. &#8220;Is that what&#8217;s happening here?&#8221; She looks down at his arm linked with hers, then back up at his face. &#8220;I&#8217;ll be honest, I have no idea what is going on here.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>redmetalandgold: iamthefirechild: redmetalandgold: iamthefirechild: &#8220;Oh, I trust you to be entirely yourself, Toni.&#8221; Summer shakes her head, slightly. &#8220;It\u2019s me I don\u2019t trust. You\u2019re \/you\/, darling, and \u2014 oh, how do I even explain this?&#8221; She looks at him, and presses her lips together. &#8220;That particular joke \u2014 it\u2019s not a joke to me, it\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/17\/redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild-9\/\" 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":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,2291,2744],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23599"}],"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=23599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23601,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23599\/revisions\/23601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}