{"id":28795,"date":"2013-04-12T23:33:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T23:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/04\/12\/running-iamthefirechild-15\/"},"modified":"2013-04-12T23:33:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T23:33:10","slug":"running-iamthefirechild-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/04\/12\/running-iamthefirechild-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Running || iamthefirechild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/supercilious-pariah.tumblr.com\/post\/47812609532\/running-iamthefirechild\">supercilious-pariah<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/47763268371\/running-iamthefirechild\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou are gonna rupture something if you keep refusing to laugh,\u201d she commented. \u201cTell me, do you not need a bodyguard because you can defend yourself, or because they never even get to you? I\u2019ve got other skills, if you\u2019d rather. Though if I\u2019m showing off, I really would prefer not to just out in the open.\u201d She circled a hand around to indicate the area around him. \u201cIt tends to startle people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cContrary to popular belief I\u2019m not that much of an asshole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/5468017031ac7e108fdbe232d79b1df7\/tumblr_inline_ml5uju3obj1qz4rgp.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot all the time, anyway. Only sometimes. As for needing a bodyguard, well. That\u2019s all up to speculation. While I don\u2019t think I need one, someone else might think I do. Or is it the other way around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally remembering that his earbuds were still in he gently pulled them out of his ears, lightly crossing his arms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a girl tell me that once. It ended in ping pong balls. This isn\u2019t going to end in ping pong balls, is it?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Her mouth twitched, a bent-up smile. &#8220;No, it&#8217;s not going to end in ping-pong balls. It really is okay. I already know you&#8217;re laughing inside, so it&#8217;s honestly not going to bother me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She rocked back a step. &#8220;See, I&#8217;m an empath. I know what you&#8217;re feeling, and I can know what the people around you are feeling.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>supercilious-pariah: iamthefirechild: \u201cYou are gonna rupture something if you keep refusing to laugh,\u201d she commented. \u201cTell me, do you not need a bodyguard because you can defend yourself, or because they never even get to you? I\u2019ve got other skills, if you\u2019d rather. Though if I\u2019m showing off, I really would prefer not to just &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/04\/12\/running-iamthefirechild-15\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Running || iamthefirechild<\/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":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,3221,3220],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28795"}],"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=28795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}