{"id":20759,"date":"2021-02-01T09:33:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T04:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/?p=20759"},"modified":"2022-05-04T14:41:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T09:11:17","slug":"the-thing-about-crushes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/the-thing-about-crushes\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: &#8216;The thing about crushes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The thing about crushes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The thing about crushes<\/p>\n<p>is that eventually they stop<\/p>\n<p>being that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not saying love dies or anything<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m just saying<\/p>\n<p>that Love never was<\/p>\n<p>and sometimes it takes a few months of<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u20de \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0tumbling across perfumed bedsheets<\/p>\n<p>\u20de \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0holding beers against the back of her neck to Get Her Attention<\/p>\n<p>\u20de \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0passing a smoke back and forth and trying not to ash on the cat\u2019s back<\/p>\n<p>\u20de \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0noticing she only texts you when her crystals are charged<\/p>\n<p>(and you\u2019re never going to know what that means because you asked once and she called you insensitive and wouldn\u2019t text you back for 2 weeks)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>to recognise that<\/p>\n<p>that shape you saw that one night<\/p>\n<p>flickering against the horizon of orgasm<\/p>\n<p>that destination you\u2019d nicknamed love<\/p>\n<p>was never love at all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Cover Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/b9kh72kOcdM\">Unsplash<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thing about crushes, is that eventually they stop being that. I\u2019m not saying love dies or anything, I\u2019m just saying, that Love never was and sometimes it takes a few months of tumbling across perfumed bedsheets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":20761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3401,2596,8],"tags":[2636,2637,71,452,2597],"class_list":{"0":"post-20759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-categories","8":"category-fiction-poetry","9":"category-singlehood-and-sexuality","10":"category-voices","11":"tag-crushes","12":"tag-imagination","13":"tag-love","14":"tag-orgasm","15":"tag-singlehood-and-sexuality"},"menu_order":212,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20759","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\/377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20759"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23367,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20759\/revisions\/23367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}