{"id":41,"date":"2008-05-25T09:09:22","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T17:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.team-studer.com\/abi\/?p=41"},"modified":"2008-05-25T09:09:22","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T17:09:22","slug":"almost-drunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.team-studer.com\/abi\/2008\/05\/25\/almost-drunk\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost Drunk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished Eclipse on Wednesday this week.  I have to be honest &#8211; I&#8217;m glad that I have time between books.<\/p>\n<p>I talked my sisters into reading the books.  Liz has already finished the first one (in a record 3 days) and I think she summed it up nicely.  &#8220;It&#8217;s like your first kiss.  Your heart doesn&#8217;t slow down until it&#8217;s over.&#8221;  And, I might add, until after you&#8217;ve been able to think about something else.<\/p>\n<p>Caution: Spoilers beyond this point.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting the sense that Bella&#8217;s never really going to become a vampire.  With my luck (which is similar to hers, I&#8217;m afraid) they&#8217;ll get married, fulfill her one human desire, she&#8217;ll end up pregnant, and they&#8217;ll have to drag it out another 9 months (or longer &#8211; it could go anywhere) and then the Volturi will show up and demand both lives.  The baby will have some random super-human mutant power and it will be a constant struggle between humanity and the unknown.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m probably wrong.  After all, the one human desire could do the trick.  Wouldn&#8217;t that be a nice twist?  Forget biting her.  This was is less painful, slower, and doesn&#8217;t leave the same kind of hunger, or thirst rather.<\/p>\n<p>Wrong again.  Marriage.  The one human desire will have no consequences, as vampires are made of stone, he&#8217;ll fulfill his promise, bite her, and they&#8217;ll live happily EVER after and that will truly be the end.  Who would there be left to protect?  To risk everyones lives for?<\/p>\n<p>Unless&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished Eclipse on Wednesday this week. I have to be honest &#8211; I&#8217;m glad that I have time between books. I talked my sisters into reading the books. Liz has already finished the first one (in a record 3 days) and I think she summed it up nicely. &#8220;It&#8217;s like your first kiss. Your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomness-becomes-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.team-studer.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.team-studer.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.team-studer.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.team-studer.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.team-studer.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.team-studer.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.team-studer.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.team-studer.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.team-studer.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}