{"id":424,"date":"2011-01-07T08:43:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T13:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jkuzmier.com\/blog\/?p=424"},"modified":"2011-01-11T18:06:36","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T23:06:36","slug":"an-introduction-of-sorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkuzmier.com\/blog\/short-stories\/an-introduction-of-sorts.htm","title":{"rendered":"An Introduction of Sorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, who are you?  I see you hanging out all the time in here, but you never say anything, hello or anything else, nothing.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Whatcha doing here?  I\u2019m not trying to scare you or anything.  A lot of times I don\u2019t notice you, because you bury your head in one of those books you carry like artillery.  You look like anyone else, until you look up, and then I know it&#8217;s you.  <\/p>\n<p>I notice you when you look out the window, like you always do every time: that&#8217;s when I can see it&#8217;s you again.  You look hard, for whatever is missing, that\u2019s what you\u2019re looking for out there.  Like if you just stare hard enough, you\u2019ll find it.  <\/p>\n<p>What are you looking for out there?  Just as I think I\u2019ve figured it out, you catch yourself, like it was something you didn\u2019t want anyone to see.  Then you go back, incognito with your books.  You think you\u2019ve caught yourself before anyone notices.  <\/p>\n<p>Mostly you\u2019re right.  Everyone who comes here is so stuck in their own world they\u2019re too narcissistic to know you.  I know because I see them all.  But then I see you too.  And then I wonder? <\/p>\n<p>Who are you?  <\/p>\n<p>Will I ever know?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, who are you? I see you hanging out all the time in here, but you never say anything, hello or anything else, nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"views":1628,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkuzmier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkuzmier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkuzmier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkuzmier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkuzmier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jkuzmier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/jkuzmier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkuzmier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkuzmier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkuzmier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}