{"id":2617,"date":"2012-06-13T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/wpblog\/?p=2617"},"modified":"2012-07-30T15:13:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T19:13:19","slug":"you-said-goodnight-first-by-pete-armetta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/you-said-goodnight-first-by-pete-armetta\/","title":{"rendered":"You Said Goodnight First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Untitled-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2618\" title=\"Untitled-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Untitled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Untitled-1.jpg 585w, http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Untitled-1-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU SAID GOODNIGHT FIRST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It went on for hours<br \/>\nOur conversation was just so good<br \/>\nIt was the being together part that felt so RIGHT to me.<\/p>\n<p>I told you I wasn\u2019t sure<br \/>\nI don\u2019t know if I want to open up again<br \/>\nI say this but I know that I&#8217;m opening anyway.<br \/>\nI\u2019m vulnerable with you.<\/p>\n<p>Despite what my intellect may be telling me.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s my heart that\u2019s doing it<br \/>\nOpening up shyly and bashfully like a bud does in springtime<br \/>\nWhy would I want to fight God&#8217;s natural order? Is there reason to even try?<\/p>\n<p>You said goodnight first<br \/>\nI still thought about you when I went to sleep<br \/>\nIn the middle of the night too, as I tossed and I turned and<br \/>\nI fiercely clutched my blanket.<\/p>\n<p>It was you that I thought of<br \/>\nIn the morning too, when I first woke from my slumber<br \/>\nI just remember it so distinctly.<br \/>\nI didn\u2019t want to have to say goodnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YOU SAID GOODNIGHT FIRST It went on for hours Our conversation was just so good It was the being together part that felt so RIGHT to me. I told you I wasn\u2019t sure I don\u2019t know if I want to open up again I say this but I know that I&#8217;m opening anyway. I\u2019m vulnerable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,219,199],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3614,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions\/3614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}