{"id":84,"date":"2016-10-07T03:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handulle.ca\/?p=84"},"modified":"2016-10-07T03:00:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T03:00:16","slug":"the-rebound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handulle.ca\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"The Rebound"},"content":{"rendered":"

She sat me down with pity in her eyes and a gleam of relief.<\/p>\n

I tried to control the recurring wave of nausea, but she must have seen through me.<\/p>\n

“You feel it don’t you?” she asked knowingly.<\/p>\n

But before I could deny it….”I am sorry I gave it to you” she followed.<\/p>\n

“Gave me what?” I asked while fighting back another bout of what doctor’s couldn’t identify.<\/p>\n

“It’ll only get worse. And the longer you wait…” she trailed off, momentarily lost in a fading memory.<\/p>\n

“There’s no cure….”she said.<\/p>\n

My mind started racing through all the possibilities.<\/p>\n

“…but there’s a way to get rid of it” she continued, her voice aching with remorse.<\/p>\n

“What are you talking about?!” I yelled exasperated.<\/p>\n

“Listen….the only way you’ll ever feel better is to break another’s heart.”<\/p>\n

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I sat her down, pity in my eyes and gleam of relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

She sat me down with pity in her eyes and a gleam of relief. I tried to control the recurring wave of nausea, but she must have seen through me. “You feel it don’t you?” she asked knowingly. But before I could deny it….”I am sorry I gave it to you” she followed. “Gave me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handulle.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handulle.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handulle.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handulle.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handulle.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/handulle.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/handulle.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handulle.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handulle.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handulle.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}