{"id":2184,"date":"2025-09-16T13:09:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T13:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2025-09-16T13:09:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T13:09:31","slug":"waiting-for-a-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/?p=2184","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for a call"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Initially, the anxiety over waiting for the call was excruciating. Each day seemed like an eternity while thinking, didn&#8217;t he write the number down wrong, didn&#8217;t I mix up my number when I gave it to him? Maybe he just isn&#8217;t interested and was just being polite. I&#8217;m sure he has just been busy but what if he lost my number? It has been a month and its okay that found his address. I am sure he was hoping i would find someway to contact him anyway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She stood in front of his door, trying to get up the nerve to knock. What if he wasn&#8217;t home? Or what if he was? What would she say? &#8216;Hey, I was just passing by and thought&#8230;.&#8217; That isn&#8217;t going to work. He will know I had to do some digging to find his address. I am going to sound like a lunatic stalker. Who does this? This is crazy. If he wanted to talk to me, he would have called. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally getting up enough nerve, she knocked and waited. No answer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initially, the anxiety over waiting for the call was excruciating. Each day seemed like an eternity while thinking, didn&#8217;t he write the number down wrong, didn&#8217;t I mix up my number when I gave it to him? Maybe he just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/?p=2184\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184","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\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2185,"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions\/2185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}