{"id":10,"date":"2008-07-01T10:19:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T09:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soanyway.co.uk\/?p=10"},"modified":"2020-11-12T22:35:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T22:35:53","slug":"10-days-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soanyway.co.uk\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"10 Days and Counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What I&#8217;ve neglected to mention so far is that not only are my heart, self-esteem and future all in the toilet but, just to add intrigue and further pile on misery, we work together. \u00a0Oh yes. \u00a0We&#8217;re not on the same team and he works one floor up, but there&#8217;s the constant possibility of bumping into him which thrills me and fills me with dread in equal measure. \u00a0Not to mention the constant pressure of having to throw on something fabulous every day on the off chance that he&#8217;ll spy me across a crowded room and realise he can&#8217;t live without me. \u00a0This isn&#8217;t as far-fetched as you might think, oh scoffers. \u00a0It actually happened the first time we broke up; what can I say, I look pretty good in a dress.<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, one of the girls on his team is leaving and her drinks are on the 10th. \u00a0So 10 days until we are absolutely, positively in the same airspace and when I get an opportunity to make him fall in love with me all over again. \u00a0Not that I&#8217;m heaping the pressure on myself, no siree. \u00a0In my mind, he&#8217;s been waiting for an opportunity to tell me that he&#8217;s made a huge mistake (again), that he wants me back (again) and that he&#8217;ll do whatever it takes to make it work (again) because THIS IS IT (again) and he definitely, absolutely wants our futures to be together (again).\u00a0 Cue violins and swooning and happily ever after. \u00a0In reality, I&#8217;ll be all brittle and awkward and it will be horrifying and I&#8217;ll leave early and cry all the way home. \u00a0And that&#8217;s actually best case scenario. \u00a0Worst case is that I get drunk and start simultaneously crying, screaming and throwing things whilst he and the fictitious Brazilian supermodel look on and shake their heads sadly in pity at me.<\/p>\n<p>The best course of action is so obviously to just not go.\u00a0 But I&#8217;ve never been one to pursue the best course of action when the possibility of torturing myself and a slow death by a thousand cuts is on offer.\u00a0 So here&#8217;s to the 10th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I&#8217;ve neglected to mention so far is that not only are my heart, self-esteem&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.soanyway.co.uk\/?p=10\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">10 Days and Counting<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,6],"tags":[10,14,13],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voldemontfort","category-angst","tag-break-up","tag-dating","tag-relationships","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soanyway.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soanyway.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soanyway.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soanyway.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soanyway.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.soanyway.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/www.soanyway.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soanyway.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soanyway.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soanyway.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}