{"id":155,"date":"2014-02-11T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sterlingslyce.com\/?p=155"},"modified":"2014-02-11T00:06:14","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T00:06:14","slug":"on-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sterlingslyce.com\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"On Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A studious pupil,<br \/>\nI remember being told<br \/>\nRomance is like a shipwreck.<br \/>\nWe imagine ourselves solid as we set out to sea,<br \/>\narmed with our ropes and measures and maps<br \/>\npassed down through the ages.<br \/>\nYet the outcome is always the same&#8211;<br \/>\nbeautiful, and tragic,<br \/>\nfor, the Ocean would never make<br \/>\nsuch a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Be mine.<br \/>\nGive me everything.<br \/>\nI promise<br \/>\nI will give it all back.<br \/>\nI will leave<br \/>\nno mark,<br \/>\nno burn cutting into the softest skin,<br \/>\nno scratch, no telltale sign.<br \/>\nI will leave no mark<br \/>\nuntil you beg for it.<\/p>\n<p>As she washed over him, his eyes<br \/>\nmade the measurement of her collar,<br \/>\nhis fingers took special care<br \/>\nadjusting the length of the silk.<\/p>\n<p>Be mine<br \/>\nhe whispered, using only that language of eyes<br \/>\nand trembling fingers,<br \/>\nbelieving she could give him everything.<\/p>\n<p>And perhaps she did<br \/>\nloose herself completely<br \/>\nfor just a single moment\u00a0 that seemed to stretch<br \/>\ntime itself<br \/>\nlike right before the wave breaks and<br \/>\nall the hearts on board<br \/>\nbeat together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A studious pupil, I remember being told Romance is like a shipwreck. We imagine ourselves solid as we set out to sea, armed with our ropes and measures and maps passed down through the ages. Yet the outcome is always the same&#8211; beautiful, and tragic, for, the Ocean would never make such a mistake. Be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sterlingslyce.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sterlingslyce.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sterlingslyce.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sterlingslyce.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sterlingslyce.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sterlingslyce.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"http:\/\/www.sterlingslyce.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sterlingslyce.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sterlingslyce.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sterlingslyce.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}