{"id":64,"date":"2001-03-24T14:12:23","date_gmt":"2001-03-24T22:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=64"},"modified":"2001-03-24T14:12:23","modified_gmt":"2001-03-24T22:12:23","slug":"tamborine-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2001\/03\/24\/tamborine-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamborine girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i can&#8217;t keep my eyes off her, and i know that&#8217;s what she wants. i am trying to focus on the band, but my eyes keep roving to left of stage, where she and her guido boyfriend can&#8217;t stand still. she&#8217;s wearing a black tank top, a studded belt, tight jeans and stilettos. he&#8217;s in a plaid jacket circa the &#8217;80s. she&#8217;s gyrating, and her blonde wisps swing back and forth to the beat. he is standing behind her, tapping her exposed stomach like a tamborine.<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s not like i haven&#8217;t seen girls like her before, but see the thing is this isn&#8217;t a club. this isn&#8217;t even a bar with a good jukebox. this is a coffeehouse in orange county and the crowd is well underage. sure, the band <!--the moseleys, coming soon to a browser near you. alright, alright. yeah, yeah. yeah, yeah.--> is rockin&#8217;, but for the most part it&#8217;s good, clean fun, and she and guido belong somewhere else.<!--like A Room.--><\/p>\n<p>i look around the patio to see if anyone else is as appalled and annoyed as i am, and nobody seems to be. this makes me even more uncomfortable, and i start to wonder why she bothers me so much. is it because she is showing off a body i will never have? is it because she is more bold and carefree than i will ever be? or is it because i am giving her the attention that she clearly wants&#8211;and needs?<\/p>\n<p>i tell myself that under all the lip gloss and rhinestones she really is just a scared little girl <a href=\"http:\/\/paranoidgirl.net\" title=\"paranoid girls\">like the rest of us<\/a>, but it doesn&#8217;t really help. and then i envision her rushing up to the stage after the show and tripping on her stiletto heel, falling flat on her face and letting out a squeaky scream, and it makes me feel a lot better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i can&#8217;t keep my eyes off her, and i know that&#8217;s what she wants. i am trying to focus on the band, but my eyes keep roving to left of stage, where she and her guido boyfriend can&#8217;t stand still. she&#8217;s wearing a black tank top, a studded belt, tight jeans and stilettos. he&#8217;s in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}