{"id":823,"date":"2007-08-31T07:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T07:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2007\/08\/its-conversation-stupid\/"},"modified":"2007-08-31T07:38:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-31T07:38:00","slug":"its-conversation-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/its-conversation-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Conversation, Stupid!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/susansenator.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/P1040421-776392.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/susansenator.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/P1040421-775107.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>It&#8217;s from this that you get yer strength, Katie Scarlet:  The red earth of Tara!-<br \/>&#8211;Gerarld O&#8217;Hara, GWTW<\/p>\n<p>Something about the blissful monotony of seaglass-blue sky and white-hot sun<br \/>And the desperation of repeated frustration and anguish<br \/>Produces an unlocking, a stretching of the mental joints<br \/>The muscles in my heart ache from overuse in one direction:  why, why, why does he do that?  what, what, what is it?  how, how, how can I stop it?!<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t stop it.<br \/>You turn towards it.<br \/>You don&#8217;t fight it; it is a riptide.  It is yet another hill, in top gear, after hours of riding.<br \/>You push on that pedal anyway.  Push the muscle one more time, with no reserves left.<br \/>You push and pull, push and pull.  You just move.<\/p>\n<p>And you climb.  You dive.  You turn towards him.  His seaglass-blue eyes are as wide as the sky, and full of something.<br \/>Questions.  The obsessions are really questions?<br \/>How does the world work?  What will happen next?<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/>Tell me again.  Tell me the story about the weather.  Tell me the story about what everyone will eat, when, and what will happen after that.  I love to hear you talk about it, the same every time, maybe a little bit more added each time. <\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Conversation like treading water.  Seeming to get nowhere.  Paddle in one place.  But you look up and you have moved somehow.<\/p>\n<p>And he is smiling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s from this that you get yer strength, Katie Scarlet: The red earth of Tara!-&#8211;Gerarld O&#8217;Hara, GWTW Something about the blissful monotony of seaglass-blue sky and white-hot sunAnd the desperation of repeated frustration and anguishProduces an unlocking, a stretching of the mental jointsThe muscles in my heart ache from overuse in one direction: why, why, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-dh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}