{"id":14777,"date":"2003-10-27T05:22:52","date_gmt":"2003-10-27T13:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willdoherty.org\/wordpress\/?p=4"},"modified":"2003-10-27T05:22:52","modified_gmt":"2003-10-27T13:22:52","slug":"nate-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/?p=14777","title":{"rendered":"Nate Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday, Nate agreed to meet me for lunch today. Yesterday evening, he contacted me to break off the lunch date. Well, everyone has their limits and I&#8217;ve reached mine. I won&#8217;t continue to try to talk with someone who apparently has little or no interest in me or even the simplest commitments they make with me. I suspect Nate doesn&#8217;t have the courage to confront me simply with what he feels, although he did finally say it wasn&#8217;t going to work out. He did it in a way that leaves me feeling like the cat is still playing with the mouse long after it&#8217;s expired. And now that I&#8217;m no longer responding at all, he&#8217;s sending me more messages than ever. May he find the bravery he needs to overcome his demons and acheive fulfillment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday, Nate agreed to meet me for lunch today. Yesterday evening, he contacted me to break off the lunch date. Well, everyone has their limits and I&#8217;ve reached mine. I won&#8217;t continue to try to talk with someone who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/?p=14777\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}