{"id":13037,"date":"2013-01-22T02:49:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=13037"},"modified":"2013-01-30T00:46:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T16:46:33","slug":"super-short-story-168-phantom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2013\/01\/super-short-story-168-phantom\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Short Story (168): Phantom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13038\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/116.jpg?resize=225%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/116.jpg?w=225&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/116.jpg?resize=96%2C96&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Super Short Story (168): Phantom<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She didn&#8217;t realise that<br \/>\nshe was secretly responding to every guy met<br \/>\nwith a sense of interest or disgust,<br \/>\nwith the few in between simply &#8216;skipped&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>She didn&#8217;t realise that<br \/>\nthat was precisely why<br \/>\nshe hasn&#8217;t met a &#8216;suitable&#8217; guy yet &#8211;<br \/>\nbecause she places her judgement too soon.<\/p>\n<p>She didn&#8217;t realise that<br \/>\nshe was as if already tensely picking a lover<br \/>\nbefore learning to befriend<br \/>\nwith an ordinary mind.<\/p>\n<p>She didn&#8217;t realise that<br \/>\nnot giving others chances<br \/>\nalso means not giving chances to herself,<br \/>\nthat she doesn&#8217;t know what she had missed.<\/p>\n<p>She didn&#8217;t realise that<br \/>\nshe could be making many dear and real friends<br \/>\neven if not finding a wonderful love,<br \/>\nthat she need not be pining only for a phantom lover.<\/p>\n<p>She didn&#8217;t realise that<br \/>\ntrue love is built on true friendship,<br \/>\nthat she shouldn&#8217;t expect love to only happen<br \/>\nin an inexplicable magic moment of mutual interest.<\/p>\n<p>She didn&#8217;t realise that<br \/>\nthat would probably be lust at first sight,<br \/>\nthat is easy come and easy go, with nothing further,<br \/>\nwhich is the case for her now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Short Story (168): Phantom She didn&#8217;t realise that she was secretly responding to every guy met with a sense&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[606],"tags":[453,116,25,275],"class_list":["post-13037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-expectation","tag-friendship","tag-love","tag-lust","wpcat-606-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}