{"id":30767,"date":"2013-01-25T00:31:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T00:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/01\/25\/gadgeteerphilanthropist-iamthefirechild-89\/"},"modified":"2013-01-25T00:31:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T00:31:56","slug":"gadgeteerphilanthropist-iamthefirechild-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/01\/25\/gadgeteerphilanthropist-iamthefirechild-89\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/gadgeteerphilanthropist.tumblr.com\/post\/41395568521\/iamthefirechild-nightmares-all-the-things-i\">gadgeteerphilanthropist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/41315778908\/gadgeteerphilanthropist-iamthefirechild\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cNightmares. All the things I didn\u2019t say. All the things I thought of to say and didn\u2019t.\u201d Summer closed her eyes. \u201cI hurt him. Over and over. And he just crumples under it.\u201d A few tears seeped out from under her eyelids, and she rubbed at them. \u201cI drove him away.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He let his head fall back, giving him an upside down view of the landscape behind him.\u00a0 \u201cYeah,\u201d he agreed quietly after a moment, like he wasn\u2019t quite sure what else to say on the matter.\u00a0 \u201cYou didn\u2019t mean to.\u201d\u00a0 Quieter still, that time, as if he was convincing himself just as much as reassuring her.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;That doesn&#8217;t make it better.&#8221; Even in the light she couldn&#8217;t get warm. &#8220;I just wanted to &#8230; make things better. For you. Him. Us! I thought, if we were friends, even if,&#8221; she flushed, &#8220;even if, he never loved me back, then it would be better. He would understand. I don&#8217;t even know what I did wro&#8212;well, okay, burning the door down was a little much.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>gadgeteerphilanthropist: iamthefirechild: \u201cNightmares. All the things I didn\u2019t say. All the things I thought of to say and didn\u2019t.\u201d Summer closed her eyes. \u201cI hurt him. Over and over. And he just crumples under it.\u201d A few tears seeped out from under her eyelids, and she rubbed at them. \u201cI drove him away.\u201d He let &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/01\/25\/gadgeteerphilanthropist-iamthefirechild-89\/\" 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":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,199,3607],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30767"}],"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=30767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}