{"id":1986,"date":"2012-07-12T10:16:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T14:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=1986"},"modified":"2012-12-04T13:15:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T18:15:08","slug":"secret-summer-crush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/birthmarked\/secret-summer-crush\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Summer Crush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1987\" title=\"DoubleSwing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DoubleSwing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"258\" \/>I knew this girl once.\u00a0 She still won\u2019t tell you his name, but he was older, and cute, and he played volleyball at the resort when her family took the boat over every summer evening to play.\u00a0 This guy, he teased her, and joked with her older brothers, and she had to pretend she wasn\u2019t looking at him and listening to him all the time.\u00a0 She had to serve the ball, knowing he was watching.\u00a0 She got to watch him play.\u00a0 Sometimes he was captain and picked her for his team.\u00a0 It was sweet and terrible, either way.<\/p>\n<p>Then, one day, her brothers caught on.\u00a0 She hadn\u2019t even said anything.\u00a0 They couldn\u2019t know the depth of her crush, but they knew enough.\u00a0 So they joked about him, saying he wore white socks.\u00a0 Like that was a crime.\u00a0 Like that made him silly or unworthy.\u00a0 \u201cThere\u2019s nothing wrong with white socks,\u201d she would say, and her brothers would laugh harder.<\/p>\n<p>The guy had the decency never to tease her himself, or, heaven forbid, make a move.\u00a0 As if he\u2019d have a chance with her three big brothers around.<\/p>\n<p>But she remembers, this girl.\u00a0 After the games, they drank pops by the lake, in a big group around the double swing, and she can still see his white socks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew this girl once.\u00a0 She still won\u2019t tell you his name, but he was older, and cute, and he played volleyball at the resort when her family took the boat over every summer evening to play.\u00a0 This guy, he teased her, and joked with her older brothers, and she had to pretend she wasn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[256],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthmarked","tag-childhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2494,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions\/2494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}