{"id":25,"date":"2006-09-15T17:36:11","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T17:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.89.31.128\/~iregretn\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/?p=25"},"modified":"2006-09-15T17:36:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T17:36:11","slug":"i-wished-id-punched-a-few-people-in-the-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/2006\/09\/15\/i-wished-id-punched-a-few-people-in-the-nose\/","title":{"rendered":"I wished I&#8217;d punched a few people in the nose&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I hadn&#8217;t needed to please other people so damned much. Women do this, when we shouldn&#8217;t or not as a hard rule&#8230;I&#8217;ve given away too much of my time to the wrong sorts, whether in daily transactions or in love, waiting for a reward that just wouldn&#8217;t come. Now I wish (not always but here and there) that I&#8217;d known better &#8212; that I&#8217;d held myself back some, not given everything away with such UNselective generosity, with such misplaced hope for what? Miracles in each of us? For something I thought only I could see or win from someone? I wish I had saved more of me for me, for the miracles fomenting right here. The fact is I wish I&#8217;d punched few people straight in the nose. Without apology.<\/p>\n<p>I am ready to do so now (selectively), and it feels delicious and right.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m no one&#8217;s corner to shit in and to whoever reads this, boy, man, or dog, girl, woman, or little fool: you shouldn&#8217;t be either.<\/p>\n<p>Submitted by: Little Miss Sunshine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I hadn&#8217;t needed to please other people so damned much. Women do this, when we shouldn&#8217;t or not as a hard rule&#8230;I&#8217;ve given away too much of my time to the wrong sorts, whether in daily transactions or in love, waiting for a reward that just wouldn&#8217;t come. Now I wish (not always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyoneeverything-else","category-neighbors","category-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}