{"id":691,"date":"2013-11-04T05:05:36","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T05:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/the_comeback\/?p=691"},"modified":"2013-11-04T05:05:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T05:05:36","slug":"ninety-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/the_comeback\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"Ninety-Four"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you say you will write one hundred posts in one hundred days, that’s a Thing. It’s a goal. A Goal. <\/p>\n

If you then proceed to drag out the hundred posts over more than a hundred days, it’s just a blog. <\/p>\n

So, this is just a blog, like any other. Sorry. It’s not special. There is no gimmick or knack. I am still posting! Until I get to 100! But, well, so what.<\/p>\n

It’s not even special to me. Really. Man it’s like the second time you try heroin*. Never as good as the first.<\/p>\n

* I have never tried heroin.<\/p>\n

I loved my first blog. I didn’t love the name of it necessarily, as years went on and it made less and less sense to anyone, but I loved that it was this great cave in the Internet where I could sit and pull my knees to my chest and just feel warm and safe. I loved that I started it as a bored unemployed person with an itchy chin, no dependants, and a lot of free time, and ended it in a suburb, with two small kids and a lot more grey hair. <\/p>\n

There’s something special about something that sees you through so much transition and doesn’t so much as blink. Not that it could blink, being a blog.<\/p>\n

MY BLOG WAS MY BEST FRIEND AND YOU CAN’T REPLACE THAT, MAN.<\/p>\n

No, that’s not quite it.<\/p>\n

I don’t know what this space is all about yet. But then, making friends takes a long time. Once you know someone and love them, you look back at all that friend-making and polite dancing about you did and laugh because now you’ve talked about taboo thing<\/i> and have gone to another level of friendship and can’t even remember when you thought she maybe looked boring or snooty. <\/p>\n

This place will go to that place someday. And we’ll forget all this awkwardness ever happened.<\/p>\n

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Here’s me in eighth grade. Awkward proof that all awkwardness is forgettable.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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