{"id":1978,"date":"2016-06-16T21:46:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T02:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2016-06-16T21:46:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T02:46:47","slug":"1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=1978","title":{"rendered":"A Few Thoughts on Taylor + Tom, Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And something else, too.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve come to the realization that if in fact I actually, really <i>want<\/i> Taylor Swift, for real, I can\u2019t be constantly protecting her and elevating her above me.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s simple.  There\u2019s a gap between her and I.  And if I use my powers to make her successful\u2026 the gap widens.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s emotionally counter-intuitive.  Usually, helping someone gets you into their good graces.  But that&#8217;s not so, in Taylor\u2019s case, with respect to me.<\/p>\n<p>The more successful I make her, the farther away she gets.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it would be better for me for her to fall a bit.  It would give me more of a chance to catch up.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And something else, too. I\u2019ve come to the realization that if in fact I actually, really want Taylor Swift, for real, I can\u2019t be constantly protecting her and elevating her above me. It\u2019s simple. There\u2019s a gap between her and I. And if I use my powers to make her successful\u2026 the gap widens. It\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}