{"id":15674,"date":"2010-01-04T16:46:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T00:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=15674"},"modified":"2010-01-04T18:51:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T02:51:41","slug":"attention-is-our-substitute-for-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=15674","title":{"rendered":"Attention Is Our Substitute For Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/yourmoralleader.camstreams.com\/\">From my live cam<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Mary:  Maybe it&#8217;s the holidays but the extracarricular flirting is reaching critical mass.<br \/>\nMary:  And it&#8217;s fun and long-distance, so why stop?<br \/>\nMary:  But since nothing fun is right, it must be wrong.<br \/>\nMary:  Right?<br \/>\nYourMoralLeader:  flirting on whose part?<br \/>\nYourMoralLeader:  yeah, it is not good, drains your sexual essence<br \/>\nMary:  Others start it, I feed it.<br \/>\nMary:  And feed on it.<br \/>\nMary:  I absolutely live on adoration. I&#8217;m an addict. Attention is my drug of choice.<br \/>\nYourMoralLeader:  Attention is our substitute for love<br \/>\nMary: That&#8217;s just it, it&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s all part of it. I love and am loved but it&#8217;s never enough. I think &#8220;attention whore&#8221; is a pretty good descriptor. After all, people &#8216;pay&#8217; attention, and the result is an almost sexual thrill. Or an actual sexual thrill, depending on the attention paid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my live cam: Mary: Maybe it&#8217;s the holidays but the extracarricular flirting is reaching critical mass. Mary: And it&#8217;s fun and long-distance, so why stop? Mary: But since nothing fun is right, it must be wrong. Mary: Right? YourMoralLeader: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=15674\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[5803,20837,20836,659,19395],"class_list":["post-15674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-addict","tag-critical-mass","tag-drug-of-choice","tag-live-cam","tag-sexual-essence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15692,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15674\/revisions\/15692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}