{"id":14801,"date":"2014-01-19T09:16:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T17:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2014\/01\/19\/14801.html"},"modified":"2014-01-19T09:16:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T17:16:30","slug":"conversational-about-kissing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2014\/01\/19\/conversational-about-kissing\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversational about kissing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I've been doing some sorting and organizing and winnowing of books lately, and came across a book that I think Arthur must have loaned me years ago: <cite>Happy All the Time<\/cite>, by Laurie Colwin, published in 1978. I haven't been liking much of the fiction that I've read recently, so I figured I would read the first chapter and then skim the rest and give it back to Arthur; but it turns out I'm finding it pretty engaging so far.<\/p>\n<p>I particularly liked the below-quoted bit (from pages 46 to 47 of the hardcover edition), though I'm not sure whether it works out of context. After an awkward quasi-date, Vincent kissed Misty and then fled; now he's invited her out to dinner to attempt to apologize, and the following conversation ensues:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;Did you actually drag me out to dinner to tell me that you didn't mean to kiss me?&rdquo; She was still smiling.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I'm sorry,&rdquo; said Vincent. &ldquo;I was just being conversational.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Conversational about <em>kissing<\/em>?&rdquo; said Misty. &ldquo;Very interesting.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What I meant to say is that I wanted to kiss you, but I didn't mean to.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Well, that certainly clears things up,&rdquo; said Misty. &ldquo;You and I seem to have very different ideas about intent <em>and<\/em> about kissing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I mean, you can't just go around kissing people,&rdquo; said Vincent.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You did,&rdquo; said Misty.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing some sorting and organizing and winnowing of books lately, and came across a book that I think&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-commonplace-book"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}