{"id":280,"date":"2016-08-30T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/30\/gene\/"},"modified":"2016-08-30T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T01:00:00","slug":"gene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/30\/gene\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The very first official girlfriend I ever had broke up with me midway through a regular 5th Grade day. We were sitting on the carpet, the room was dark and she wanted to hold hands and own my gaze. I know this because she aggressively whispered so to me. She could not understand why I couldn&#8217;t tear my attention away from the boy with the ticket, the river of chocolate, the monotone Oompas or the candy that turned you into a balloon. More important I was mesmerized by the funny man with knowing smile who could make a difference in a poor 11 year old&#8217;s life (if the kid was worthy). The relationship was brief but the movie-man made an impression. <o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Fare-thee-well Gene!<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The very first official girlfriend I ever had broke up with me midway through a regular 5th Grade day. We were sitting on the carpet, the room was dark and she wanted to hold hands and own my gaze. I know this because she aggressively whispered so to me. She could not understand why I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/30\/gene\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gene&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[225,832,831],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}