{"id":44,"date":"2003-04-14T22:00:53","date_gmt":"2003-04-15T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willdoherty.org\/wordpress\/?p=44"},"modified":"2003-04-14T22:00:53","modified_gmt":"2003-04-15T06:00:53","slug":"paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul and I are still chatting regularly online and sometimes by phone. He is seeing a Dutch guy named Ivo long distance.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I felt up to recounting here how he told me by phone one day that I am not &#8220;the one&#8221; for him. He &#8220;broke it off&#8221; with another guy named Bruno on the same day. Bruno basically said whatever and cut off communication. I told Paul I still really care about him and still want to see him.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve realized that I love him whether or not he loves me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve realized that the situation is not unhealthy unless I make it so. For example, as a result of my connection with Paul, I feel better about exercising and I&#8217;m trying to learn Spanish. These are overall positive effects on my life.<\/p>\n<p>Paul tells me that we may visit each other at some point after he returns to Cordoba where he lives in Argentina. I think it would be fun to take a trip to Buenos Aires to see the political developments there, then to tour a bit around Argentina and visit Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul and I are still chatting regularly online and sometimes by phone. He is seeing a Dutch guy named Ivo long distance. I don&#8217;t think I felt up to recounting here how he told me by phone one day that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/?p=44\">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":[181,228],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"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=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}