{"id":5,"date":"2012-12-31T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.d-c-k.com\/nessie\/?p=5"},"modified":"2021-01-05T18:46:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T17:46:17","slug":"introductory-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.d-c-k.com\/Nessie\/introductory-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Introductory Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was kissed by a man on Christmas Eve 198.. .<\/p>\n<p>It was at the end of a party. He had been near me most of the evening, putting his hands onto me in unwonted caresses. It was very sweet and exciting. I did not recognize myself : the idea of another man had never entered my head before.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I had seen him kiss women on one or two previous occasions. It shocked me, because in my opinion one does not kiss lightly. I do not, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>His kiss on Christmas Eve upset me profoundly. It rocked the whole of my existence. It seriously questioned the values I had lived for so far. I had to realize that I desired another man.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I could not eat nor sleep. I became conscious of my body. I surprized my partner by going to bed in winter without a nightdress on. Not that he would come near me for that &#8211; I certainly did not encourage him &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Writing about these things now is not without pain.<\/p>\n<p>It is like regurgitating at last something that proved unacceptable for one\u2019s system, the indigestible parts of too heavy a meal &#8211; bringing them up is nasty; yet, elimination is a relief, even though an unpleasant taste stays for a time after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was kissed by a man on Christmas Eve 198.. . It was at the end of a party. He had been near me most of the evening, putting his hands onto me in unwonted caresses. It was very sweet and exciting. I did not recognize myself : the idea of another man had never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nessie"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.d-c-k.com\/Nessie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.d-c-k.com\/Nessie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.d-c-k.com\/Nessie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.d-c-k.com\/Nessie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.d-c-k.com\/Nessie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.d-c-k.com\/Nessie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.d-c-k.com\/Nessie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.d-c-k.com\/Nessie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.d-c-k.com\/Nessie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}