{"id":1621,"date":"2015-01-21T14:09:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T22:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/eroticbynature\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2015-01-21T14:10:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T22:10:45","slug":"teenage-love-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/2015\/01\/21\/teenage-love-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage Love Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I sit frozen on the couch,<\/p>\n<p>arm around her shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>It is time to take the Next Step<\/p>\n<p>but I am too afraid to move.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The seconds tick off my embarrassment,<\/p>\n<p>hang from my eyes like tears of lead,<\/p>\n<p>dragging me down, down.<\/p>\n<p>There is no way forward<\/p>\n<p>and no going back,<\/p>\n<p>so we sit<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">frightened boy<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">impassive girl<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">stone statue that I am supposed to want<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">to touch,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">that I do want to touch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nothing comes from her<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">no help<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">no clue<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">no welcome<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">no warmth<\/p>\n<p>yet for fifteen years I will hate myself<\/p>\n<p>for not being able to make love<\/p>\n<p>to a succulent corpse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I sit frozen on the couch,<\/p>\n<p>arm around her shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>It is time to take the Next Step<\/p>\n<p>but I am too afraid to move.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The seconds tick off my embarrassment,<\/p>\n<p>hang from my eyes like tears of lead,<\/p>\n<p>dragging me down, down.<\/p>\n<p>There is no way forward<\/p>\n<p>and no going back,<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}