{"id":368,"date":"2002-09-03T11:33:58","date_gmt":"2002-09-03T19:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=368"},"modified":"2009-08-17T10:33:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T18:33:22","slug":"i-remember-you-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2002\/09\/03\/i-remember-you-james\/","title":{"rendered":"I remember you: James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>james was all tattoos and swearing. he would hitch a ride on my backpack, coasting behind me on his skateboard. the echo of our laughter would follow us down the hallway,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;HA HA HA<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">HA HA&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div align=\"right\">HA HA&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>HA HA HA!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>james was filipino, but his hair was never jet black. last i remember it was blue, the color of midnight and velvet prom dresses.<\/p>\n<p>he always was inviting me to his cocktail parties, folding colored fliers into fourths and slipping them into my backpack, but i never went. he and i didn&#8217;t have any friends in common.<\/p>\n<p>i don&#8217;t know if we had <i>anything<\/i> in common.<\/p>\n<p>still, i think james liked me. i pretended i didn&#8217;t know, and i&#8217;m not really sure why. maybe i was scared of him. i was scared he would show me a side of the world i would like better.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#cc3300\">(THIS IS PART OF AN ONGOING SERIES OF PEOPLE I REMEMBER.)<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>james was all tattoos and swearing. he would hitch a ride on my backpack, coasting behind me on his skateboard. the echo of our laughter would follow us down the hallway, &#8220;HA HA HA HA HA&nbsp; HA HA&nbsp; HA HA HA!&#8221; james was filipino, but his hair was never jet black. last i remember it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}