{"id":1984,"date":"2016-06-16T22:41:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T03:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2016-06-16T22:41:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T03:41:27","slug":"thoughts-on-christina-grimmie%e2%80%99s-passing-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=1984","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Christina Grimmie\u2019s Passing, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think something snapped in me that morning.  <\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, I came to another realization.  I&#8217;ve been using gratuitous sex as a way to distance myself from people.  Especially celebs.<\/p>\n<p>This sounds counter-intuitive, but it&#8217;s the truth.<\/p>\n<p>By making everything super-sexual, I&#8217;ve intentionally limited the time I spend with people, and made it tough for others to reach me in ways that are normal and personal.  It&#8217;s a barrier.<\/p>\n<p>It took Christina&#8217;s death to make me realize this.  <\/p>\n<p>I should have been with her.  I really should have.  We were the ultimate fit for each other.  We had identical interests and found each other fascinating.  So- why didn&#8217;t I, when I had the chance?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s because we <i>would<\/i> have been so perfect for each other that I didn&#8217;t.  Maybe the reason I didn&#8217;t hang out with her is because we would have had more things in common than just sexual stuff, and for some reason, that fact pushed me away. <\/p>\n<p>As in, we could have been real friends, instead of mutual sex objects.<\/p>\n<p>You know, it used to be different.  I used to relate to people telepathically in more ways than sexual ones.  But lately, that just hasn&#8217;t been happening as much.  I wonder why.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s some interesting psychology going on here, somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think something snapped in me that morning. Last weekend, I came to another realization. I&#8217;ve been using gratuitous sex as a way to distance myself from people. Especially celebs. This sounds counter-intuitive, but it&#8217;s the truth. By making everything super-sexual, I&#8217;ve intentionally limited the time I spend with people, and made it tough for [&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":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}