{"id":20401,"date":"2020-12-01T09:36:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T04:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/?p=20401"},"modified":"2020-12-03T22:11:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T16:41:36","slug":"sweet-sixteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/sweet-sixteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Sixteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">(A response evoked by an <\/span><span lang=\"EN\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scroll.in\/article\/825350\/sweet-sixteen-a-poem-by-eunice-de-souza\">excerpt<\/a> of Eunice De Souza\u2019s poem of the same name)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">At sixteen, the senior boy I<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">loved, touched me down there<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">and said, <em>this is what boyfriends<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><em><span lang=\"EN\">do, this is what love feels like <\/span><span lang=\"EN\">&#8211;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">uncomfortable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">At eighteen, when I fell in love<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">again, the boy asked me if his<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">touch was comfortable. Ashamed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">at feeling what I <em>should not,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">I just nodded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">When his mouth tasted my<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">uncleanliness, I reminded him, <em>but<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><em><span lang=\"EN\">this is where I pee from<\/span><span lang=\"EN\">.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">At eighteen, he was only<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">three years older,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">smiling, and teaching me how<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">I have been peeing wrong<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">all my life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><em>Cover Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/nykbGgCHXA4\">Pixabay<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At sixteen, the senior boy I loved, touched me down there and said, this is what boyfriends do, this is what love feels like \u2013 uncomfortable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":20403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2540,8],"tags":[619,2558,2541,2552,2556,71,373,99,193,1551],"class_list":{"0":"post-20401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-categories","8":"category-femininities-and-sexuality","9":"category-voices","10":"tag-bodies","11":"tag-boyfriend","12":"tag-femininities-and-sexuality","13":"tag-gender-performance","14":"tag-hetero-patriarchal-norms","15":"tag-love","16":"tag-misogyny","17":"tag-relationships","18":"tag-shame","19":"tag-touch"},"menu_order":239,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20401"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20474,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20401\/revisions\/20474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}