{"id":9773,"date":"2009-08-16T12:18:16","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T20:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9773"},"modified":"2009-08-16T19:43:55","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T03:43:55","slug":"you-dont-do-anything-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9773","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You Don&#8217;t Do Anything With It&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;You say love my hair,&quot; she said, &quot;but you don&#8217;t do anything with it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>She was right. I loved long hair. It&#8217;s a woman&#8217;s glory. She had soft silky black hair and I had taken it for granted. I liked looking at it. I liked knowing it belonged to me. I felt proud of it. But I had done nothing with it. I had taken it for granted. I had gotten lost in all her other splendors.<\/p>\n<p>I reached out and started running my fingers through her hair.<\/p>\n<p>She looked up at me, all soft and trusting and wanting to be stroked.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Daddy&#8217;s home,&quot; I purred.<\/p>\n<p>Khunrum emails my Advisory Committee: &quot;Boys, what&#8217;s with the soft core drivel Luke is posting these days? Will his next literary offering be a bad Romance Novel? This might have been hot stuff a hundred years ago but for for 2009 it&#8217;s zzzzzzz!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m stretching creatively. To write great, you have to allow yourself room to fail.<\/p>\n<p>Khunrum emails: &quot;I&#8217;d say you failed brother. I believe the only person interested in that type of writing would be a failed Nun. What&#8217;s next? Spice it up a bit boy.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Helpful writes: I fully support Luke&#8217;s new genre choice.  Rip that bodice, Luke.  Rip that bodice!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/Images\/photos\/hoveldesire.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;You say love my hair,&quot; she said, &quot;but you don&#8217;t do anything with it.&quot; She was right. I loved long hair. It&#8217;s a woman&#8217;s glory. She had soft silky black hair and I had taken it for granted. I liked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9773\">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":[18457,18455,9968,5845,18456],"class_list":["post-9773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-black-hair","tag-black-shine","tag-long-hair","tag-psyche","tag-splendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9773","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=9773"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9792,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9773\/revisions\/9792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}