{"id":160,"date":"2011-02-06T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=160"},"modified":"2011-02-06T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T19:00:00","slug":"joe-karmia-feels-bad-for-the-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/joe-karmia-feels-bad-for-the-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Karmia feels bad for the bed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Diet Pills<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">My ex girlfriend came over to my house, it had been several years and 40lbs after our break up. She&#39;s trying to loose weight&nbsp; with stimulant diet pills. After we catch up on old times and visit for a while we go back to my room. I lay on the bed and wait for her to get in on the other side, I had an ominous feeling as I watched her get undressed. She puts a knee on the side of the bed about to get in and a loud snap echo&#39;s threw out the house. She applies full body weight to the bed and the bed starts to rise at both ends, folding in the middle. Embarrassment, dread. &#8220;I&#39;m supposed to be loosing weight!&#8221; She yells. &#8220;Its not you babe, its the bed&#8221; I responded, strangely reminding me of our break up &#8220;Its not you babe, its me&#8230;&#8221;&nbsp; Here get up, let me fix the frame, its the frame. But it wasn&#39;t. I felt bad for her, and my bed.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">* Joe Karmia<\/span><br \/>\n says &#8220;I am a 30yo SWM from the Chicago burbs. I have been writing<br \/>\npoetry and prose and a few short stories for the last five years. I am now willing to test the<br \/>\nwaters and see if my work stands up.&#8221;<\/font><font size=\"2\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diet PillsMy ex girlfriend came over to my house, it had been several years and 40lbs after our break up. She&#39;s trying to loose weight&nbsp; with stimulant diet pills. After we catch up on old times and visit for a while we go back to my room. I lay on the bed and wait for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}