{"id":24271,"date":"2013-09-30T23:25:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T23:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/09\/30\/redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild-11\/"},"modified":"2015-02-21T02:29:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T02:29:06","slug":"redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/09\/30\/redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild-11\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-24271 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\/09\/30\/redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild-11\/attachment\/24272\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/files\/2013\/09\/tumblr_mttl1jAJM61sn7rsqo1_4001-150x150.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\/62757515603\/iamthefirechild-redmetalandgold\">redmetalandgold<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/62747405117\/redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/redmetalandgold.tumblr.com\/post\/62746660782\/iamthefirechild-redmetalandgold-eight\">redmetalandgold<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/62746533651\/redmetalandgold-eight-oclock-you-said-here\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/redmetalandgold.tumblr.com\/post\/62746218663\/eight-oclock-you-said-here-i-am-toni-oh\">redmetalandgold<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Eight o\u2019clock, you said. Here I am, Toni.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, God, well now we can\u2019t go out. You\u2019re too gorgeous to be seen with me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She gapes at him for a second. \u201d \u2026 I fucking \/knew\/ you would have an excuse. I knew this would happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Wait, what?&#8221; Toni questions, brow furrowing a bit. &#8220;No, sweetheart, that was a joke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The breath rushes out of her in a whoosh. It doesn\u2019t help the way her stomach is turning over, especially now, and she\u2019s so closed up and tense there\u2019s no way she could have known without him saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; \u2026 Toni, for fuck\u2019s sake.&#8221; Summer leans her forehead on his shoulder.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I take it you can\u2019t take jokes all too well anymore?&#8221; he chuckles, trailing a careful hand through her hair, before pulling back slightly to look her over. &#8220;You know, I get the feeling that you don\u2019t trust me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, I trust you to be entirely yourself, Toni.&#8221; Summer shakes her head, slightly. &#8220;It&#8217;s me I don&#8217;t trust. You&#8217;re \/you\/, darling, and &#8212; oh, how do I even explain this?&#8221; She looks at him, and presses her lips together. &#8220;That particular joke &#8212; it&#8217;s not a joke to me, it&#8217;s &#8212; I&#8217;m not gorgeous, Toni, I&#8217;m short and skinny and sharp-tongued, and to be quite honest I&#8217;m over thirty years old and no one has ever asked me out on a date before.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>redmetalandgold: iamthefirechild: redmetalandgold: iamthefirechild: redmetalandgold: &#8220;Eight o\u2019clock, you said. Here I am, Toni.&#8221; &#8220;Oh, God, well now we can\u2019t go out. You\u2019re too gorgeous to be seen with me.&#8221; She gapes at him for a second. \u201d \u2026 I fucking \/knew\/ you would have an excuse. I knew this would happen.\u201d &#8220;Wait, what?&#8221; Toni questions, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/09\/30\/redmetalandgold-iamthefirechild-11\/\" 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":[10,2943,2291,2944],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24271"}],"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=24271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24273,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24271\/revisions\/24273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}