{"id":272375,"date":"2013-06-20T16:11:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T16:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/06\/20\/flutiebear-preservedcucumbers-all-this-time\/"},"modified":"2018-10-17T21:27:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T21:27:11","slug":"flutiebear-preservedcucumbers-all-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/06\/20\/flutiebear-preservedcucumbers-all-this-time\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-272375 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\/2013\/06\/20\/flutiebear-preservedcucumbers-all-this-time\/attachment\/272376\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/tumblr_m77vdcLVgn1r45a1eo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/tumblr_m77vdcLVgn1r45a1eo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/tumblr_m77vdcLVgn1r45a1eo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/flutiebear.tumblr.com\/post\/27307982920\/preservedcucumbers-all-this-time-ive-loved\" target=\"_blank\">flutiebear<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/preservedcucumbers.tumblr.com\/post\/27274832622\" target=\"_blank\">preservedcucumbers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>all this time I\u2019ve loved you, and never known your face.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/kbUfDXrWgbs\" target=\"_blank\">x<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Dean slowly stretches out a finger. Then his hand. Light, like the glow of the sun behind clouds, reaches back toward him, and Dean shivers.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cAre you made of masks?\u201d he whispers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>These are my true faces, Dean. <\/em>It\u2019s not so much a voice as a resonance, the atoms of air vibrating, harmonizing. Dean\u2019s bones sing like struck crystal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThey\u2019re awesome,\u201d Dean blinks rapidly, eyes stinging, \u201cYou\u2019re awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>I am what I am,<\/em> the air hums, its melody shy\u2014even pleased.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Dean\u2019s lips twitch into a smile. He lets his gaze wander, memorizing the smooth faces, the undulating hands, the smoke-caked feathers. Cas\u2019s true form reminds Dean, oddly, of fireworks, or a kite soaring high against the sky. It\u2019s like gazing up into a galaxy of smoke and feathers, one Dean could lose himself in forever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI think,\u201d he whispers fondly, \u201cwearing Jimmy didn\u2019t do you justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A warm wind, like a puff of laughter, stirs Dean\u2019s hair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>I think,<\/em> sings the air,<em> it\u2019s the other way around.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>flutiebear: preservedcucumbers: all this time I\u2019ve loved you, and never known your face. [x] Dean slowly stretches out a finger. Then his hand. Light, like the glow of the sun behind clouds, reaches back toward him, and Dean shivers.\u00a0 \u201cAre you made of masks?\u201d he whispers. These are my true faces, Dean. It\u2019s not so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/06\/20\/flutiebear-preservedcucumbers-all-this-time\/\" 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":[665],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272375"}],"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=272375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272377,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272375\/revisions\/272377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}