Dear Idea:<\/p>\n
If you are shiny and new and interest me in any way, I am yours.\u00a0 I know I pretend to play hard to get.\u00a0 I act like I\u2019m choosy about what thoughts I let into my head, and that I have, for lack of a better term, some kind of \u201cstandards.\u201d<\/p>\n
Truth is: I\u2019m kind of an idea slut.\u00a0 And I\u2019m down for almost anything.\u00a0 So make your pitch, tell me why you\u2019re worth my time, and we\u2019ll see what happens.\u00a0 If you pique my curiosity, I\u2019m like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman<\/em>, \u201ca sure thing.\u201d<\/p>\n But let\u2019s be honest here for a moment.\u00a0 Ideas like you come and go.\u00a0 We can flirt and maybe mess around a little, but if you\u2019re looking for more, I need to know you have staying power.\u00a0 So here\u2019s what you\u2019ve got to do.<\/p>\n Show me that you love me.\u00a0 Be my dedicated stalker.\u00a0 Refuse to leave me alone.\u00a0 Call me during dinner, surprise me at the grocery story, and watch me while I sleep.\u00a0 Do all those things that would earn a living being a restraining order.<\/p>\n Please know that even as you pursue me, I will feign interests in other projects.\u00a0 I will say I do not have time for you and may even attempt to pawn you off onto some of my friends, but rest assured.\u00a0 You are making an impact.<\/p>\n Your persistence is magnetizing me.\u00a0 Related thoughts and situations and snatches of dialogue will begin sticking in my brain like iron filings, and slowly over time they will acquire mass.\u00a0 As I begin to group these things together, I will associate them with you: my sweet, special idea.<\/p>\n In addition to being dedicated to me and me alone, it helps if you\u2019re at least a little bit fun.\u00a0 I want to be able to tell my wife about you (don\u2019t worry, she\u2019s an open-minded kind of girl) and make her laugh when I riff on one theme or another.\u00a0 I want her to feel like she can\u2019t wait for me to write about you.\u00a0 I want to think this could really be something special, and that I can\u2019t wait to put pages in her hand.<\/p>\n If you can do all those things, my dear, beautiful, wonderful idea, then chances are good that we\u2019ll end up together, trapped inside a small, dark room, chained to a chair for hours on end, slowly bleeding the soul out of one another, just like all of history\u2019s great romances.<\/p>\n Hugs and Kisses,<\/p>\n ME<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Idea: If you are shiny and new and interest me in any way, I am yours.\u00a0 I know I pretend to play hard to get.\u00a0 I act like I\u2019m choosy about what thoughts I let into my head, and that I have, for lack of a better term, some kind of \u201cstandards.\u201d Truth is: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[534,657,828],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-process","tag-ideas","tag-magnetism","tag-persistence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}