{"id":2007,"date":"2025-08-18T21:36:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/?p=2007"},"modified":"2025-08-18T21:36:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:36:33","slug":"lesson-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/?p=2007","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 1"},"content":{"rendered":"He knew it would be hard, holding that table for so long. But when Karen had asked him to help her he couldn\u2019t say no. It just wouldn\u2019t be right. Not when he was so close.<br \/><br \/>\u201eAfter I get this over with, do you want to get something to eat?\u201c she asked, slipping the carpet under the table. He thought about it.<br \/>\u201eI would like that,\u201c he grunted, his muscles aching. He decided then and there that he would start going to the gym he gave money to every month. Although he decided that every time. Maybe this time he meant it?<br \/><br \/>\u201eAnything in particular,\u201c she said, fixing the carpet a little more. \u201eAlmost there\u2026\u201c<br \/>He hoped she would finish this soon. He doubted he could hold on for much longer. But if this selfless act would finally show her how much he\u2026<br \/><br \/>The phone rang. Not his phone, which was good. Her phone, which was bad. <br \/>She answered, he noted, with a smile. A tiny pebble started to form inside his stomach.<br \/><br \/>\u201eHey, you. Oh, nothing much. Sure. Okay, I\u2019ll see you in a bit.\u201c<br \/><br \/>She hung up. Her phone went into her pocket. <br \/>\u201eYou can put the table down now. Thank you so much, I don\u2019t know what I would have done without you.\u201c<br \/><br \/>As gently as he could muster, the table came down. And only with a tiny thunk. He exhaled.<br \/><br \/>\u201eListen,\u201c she said, \u201eI\u2019m sorry but something came up.\u201c The stone in his stomach made itself welcome in its new home. \u201eI will make this up to you tomorrow, okay?\u201c<br \/>\u201eWas this Andrea?\u201c<br \/>\u201eNo, it\u2019s a guy I met the other weekend, he\u2019s taking me out on a date.\u201c<br \/><br \/>This was new. And not in a good way.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He knew it would be hard, holding that table for so long. But when Karen had asked him to help her he couldn\u2019t say no. It just wouldn\u2019t be right. Not when he was so close. \u201eAfter I get this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/?p=2007\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2009,"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions\/2009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}