{"id":253703,"date":"2013-10-01T10:25:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T10:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/01\/it-was-their-own-fault-greg-reflected-there-was\/"},"modified":"2013-10-01T10:25:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T10:25:44","slug":"it-was-their-own-fault-greg-reflected-there-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/01\/it-was-their-own-fault-greg-reflected-there-was\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>It was their own fault, Greg reflected. There was John, with his fluffy jumper and his little face, looking like he ought to be presenting children\u2019s telly.  And there was Sherlock, brittle and spiky and expensive-looking. The one looked cuddly and the other looked untouchable, and so strangers came up and touched John and nobody much ever touched Sherlock.<\/p>\n<p>Only it was all backwards, because John was the one who actually winced sometimes at accidental contact, and Sherlock was the one who\u2019d lean on your shoulder and reach into your pockets if he thought he could get away with it. Greg reckoned John had got a bit too much intimate touching through being up to his wrists inside people\u2019s guts. There was no need to speculate on how Sherlock had ended up so touch-starved \u2014 he\u2019d just been himself and people had shied away in droves.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>London Orbital by merripestin<\/p>\n<p>Oh, this is BRILLIANT<\/p>\n<p> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/breadprincess.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">breadprincess<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was their own fault, Greg reflected. There was John, with his fluffy jumper and his little face, looking like he ought to be presenting children\u2019s telly. And there was Sherlock, brittle and spiky and expensive-looking. The one looked cuddly and the other looked untouchable, and so strangers came up and touched John and nobody &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/01\/it-was-their-own-fault-greg-reflected-there-was\/\" 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":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4139,15,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253703"}],"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=253703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}