{"id":26279,"date":"2013-07-08T23:38:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T23:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/07\/08\/thefluffyromantic-iamthefirechild-thats\/"},"modified":"2013-07-08T23:38:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T23:38:17","slug":"thefluffyromantic-iamthefirechild-thats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/07\/08\/thefluffyromantic-iamthefirechild-thats\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

thefluffyromantic<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“That\u2019s not at all what I meant! I meant \u2026 only, you said I needed someone to dedicate themselves to me, and that \u2014 I didn\u2019t know I was that selfish. I don\u2019t mean to be. I\u2019m trying to understand what you\u2019re saying so I can be a better person in general; I\u2019m not trying to change your mind.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“You are not selfish, what I meant by that was that he wouldn\u2019t put his work before you. I would. I love my work, it is my dedication. You need someone to love you before anything else, and I can\u2019t. And that isn\u2019t selfishness that is a relationship.” He sighed, rubbing his temples. \u201cIt also doesn\u2019t help that I am more into the male gender than female, dear.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“But … that’s not what I want. I don’t — I shouldn’t — ” She flailed a hand, frustrated at her inability to put words around her thoughts. “R—” She cleared her throat. “Robert said that he was a person who would pay attention to me. Is that what you mean?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

thefluffyromantic: iamthefirechild: “That\u2019s not at all what I meant! I meant \u2026 only, you said I needed someone to dedicate themselves to me, and that \u2014 I didn\u2019t know I was that selfish. I don\u2019t mean to be. I\u2019m trying to understand what you\u2019re saying so I can be a better person in general; I\u2019m … Continue reading <\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,2223],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26279"}],"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=26279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}