{"id":120461,"date":"2016-01-01T05:12:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T05:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/01\/thexfiles-what-i-didnt-realize-back-when-i\/"},"modified":"2018-09-04T02:00:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T02:00:07","slug":"thexfiles-what-i-didnt-realize-back-when-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/01\/thexfiles-what-i-didnt-realize-back-when-i\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-120461 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/01\/thexfiles-what-i-didnt-realize-back-when-i\/attachment\/120462\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tumblr_o07b3vaMTX1u2p6qio3_r1_400-150x145.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/01\/thexfiles-what-i-didnt-realize-back-when-i\/attachment\/120463\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tumblr_o07b3vaMTX1u2p6qio8_r1_400-150x145.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/01\/thexfiles-what-i-didnt-realize-back-when-i\/attachment\/120464\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tumblr_o07b3vaMTX1u2p6qio4_r1_400-150x145.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/01\/thexfiles-what-i-didnt-realize-back-when-i\/attachment\/120465\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tumblr_o07b3vaMTX1u2p6qio2_r1_400-150x145.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/01\/thexfiles-what-i-didnt-realize-back-when-i\/attachment\/120466\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tumblr_o07b3vaMTX1u2p6qio5_r1_400-150x145.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/01\/thexfiles-what-i-didnt-realize-back-when-i\/attachment\/120467\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tumblr_o07b3vaMTX1u2p6qio1_r1_400-150x145.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/01\/thexfiles-what-i-didnt-realize-back-when-i\/attachment\/120468\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tumblr_o07b3vaMTX1u2p6qio9_r1_400-150x145.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/01\/thexfiles-what-i-didnt-realize-back-when-i\/attachment\/120469\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/tumblr_o07b3vaMTX1u2p6qio7_r1_400-150x145.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thexfiles.tumblr.com\/post\/136301422205\" target=\"_blank\">thexfiles<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><small>\u201cWhat I didn\u2019t realize, back when I was this twenty-five-year-old pinup for geeks in that me myself and iconic metal bikini, was that I had signed an invisible contract to stay looking the exact same way for the next thirty to forty years. Well, clearly I\u2019ve broken that contract. Partly because, in an effort to keep up my disguise as a human being, I had a child at some point. And then, in an effort to stay sane for said child, I took pounds and pounds of medications that have the dual effect of causing water retention (think ocean, not lake) while also creating a craving for salad<\/small><small>\u2014chocolate salad. So yes, in answer to your unexpressed question, sanity does turn out to come at a heavy price.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>\u2014 Carrie Fisher<\/b><\/small><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thexfiles: \u201cWhat I didn\u2019t realize, back when I was this twenty-five-year-old pinup for geeks in that me myself and iconic metal bikini, was that I had signed an invisible contract to stay looking the exact same way for the next thirty to forty years. Well, clearly I\u2019ve broken that contract. Partly because, in an effort &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/01\/thexfiles-what-i-didnt-realize-back-when-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[510,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120470,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120461\/revisions\/120470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}