{"id":3872,"date":"2023-10-17T08:21:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T15:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=3872"},"modified":"2023-11-25T18:35:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T01:35:20","slug":"meet-me-behind-the-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=3872","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Meet me behind the mall.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am filling up a notebook in small blocks of writing.<br \/>\nTS explained how she wrote down, &#8220;Meet me behind the mall&#8221; and knew someday she would put it in a song.<br \/>\nI am that way with word combinations, double entendres,\u00a0 words that make me wonder about the origin.\u00a0 There hasn&#8217;t been a time when I wasn&#8217;t collecting words, but for the first time I am compelled to write them down.\u00a0 I was listening to a interview the other day and all the sudden my brain said, &#8216;Go grab a pen and paper&#8230;we got some shit we need share.&#8221;\u00a0 and there I was standing in my kitchen manic writing. &#8220;don&#8217;t stop, don&#8217;t stop, don&#8217;t stop&#8221; i chanted as the pen literally scratched along the surface of the paper.<br \/>\nAfter looking at what I wrote and rereading it at least ten times I set the pen down and went to bed.<br \/>\nThe next morning the notepad was splayed open where I left it and I reread what I wrote.\u00a0 &#8220;Yes, there is something here&#8230;but what is it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s therapy.\u00a0 \u00a0It allows me to see my insecurities and lessons I am willing to acknowledge now.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what this is.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not for a single person to actually read, it&#8217;s just for me to just revisit.\u00a0 I did that last week and that is why I put most of the shit I wrote years ago on published but not visible.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t want to reread it&#8230;the good, the funny and the memories of a time when I wasn&#8217;t the person I am.<\/p>\n<p>I guess all those time are scribblings in a notebook too&#8230;with just more context.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am filling up a notebook in small blocks of writing. TS explained how she wrote down, &#8220;Meet me behind the mall&#8221; and knew someday she would put it in a song. I am that way with word combinations, double entendres,\u00a0 words that make me wonder about the origin.\u00a0 There hasn&#8217;t been a time when&#8230;<\/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-3872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3873,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions\/3873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}