{"id":2623,"date":"2010-08-18T13:26:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T20:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2016-11-07T17:04:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T23:04:21","slug":"the-day-i-studied-richard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/the-day-i-studied-richard\/","title":{"rendered":"The day I studied Richard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/2008-07-30-Fish-Creek-128.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2625 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/2008-07-30-Fish-Creek-128.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/2008-07-30-Fish-Creek-128.jpg 433w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/2008-07-30-Fish-Creek-128-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Richard and I met when I was 18.\u00a0 We did many things among friends. My apartment met with his apartment to go to concerts or go on hikes or whatever you do when you&#8217;re in college. (I forget.)<\/p>\n<p>He was so nice, smart, and talented.<\/p>\n<p>One day I watched him walk around during church fulfilling some responsibilities. I remember several impressions I had. One was that I wanted to feed him something. Another impression was that he looked very dear. I can&#8217;t think of any other way to say it. (Sorry, Richard.)<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t for another year that we even went on a date or talked much. But he remained a study for me. For instance, I remember him driving me and my friends to the base of our mountain hike. He let us crank the radio of his car and I remember singing really loudly. He had a car (sigh) and he was fun to be with.<\/p>\n<p>There were more leaves to turn and more important qualities revealed during that year before we dated.<\/p>\n<p>When I see him I still want to feed him and I still think he looks dear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard and I met when I was 18.\u00a0 We did many things among friends. My apartment met with his apartment to go to concerts or go on hikes or whatever you do when you&#8217;re in college. (I forget.) He was so nice, smart, and talented. One day I watched him walk around during church fulfilling &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/the-day-i-studied-richard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The day I studied Richard<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12787,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions\/12787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}