{"id":700,"date":"2017-08-16T08:36:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T00:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/?p=700"},"modified":"2017-08-16T12:05:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T04:05:56","slug":"in-dependence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/?p=700","title":{"rendered":"In dependence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years of my mother telling me not to have a boyfriend, and\u00a0telling me that it&#8217;s perfectly okay (and probably better) if I don&#8217;t get married. Now it seems everyone expects me to and maybe I&#8217;ve bought into it. For no reason beyond the fact that we&#8217;ve been together for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>There are some days when it doesn&#8217;t sound like a bad idea. But there are other days too.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want a legal contract with another human being to bind us in utilitarian harmony. What I want is an apartment. What I want is to get back to Australia for a month or three. What I want is to live away.<\/p>\n<p>Has my desire\u00a0to be independent turned into a dependence on someone else?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years of my mother telling me not to have a boyfriend, and\u00a0telling me that it&#8217;s perfectly okay (and probably better) if I don&#8217;t get married. Now it seems everyone expects me to and maybe I&#8217;ve bought into it. For no reason beyond the fact that we&#8217;ve been together for a long time. There are some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}