{"id":129,"date":"2011-07-14T01:30:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T05:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/?p=129"},"modified":"2011-03-24T22:39:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T02:39:51","slug":"50-a-pair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"$50 a Pair"},"content":{"rendered":"

spear\u00a0\u00a0 olive \u00a0\u00a0 secrecy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 diagonal\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 corkscrew\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 baby\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 flummoxed\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 despair<\/strong><\/p>\n

The expression on Tim’s face was inscrutable. He gaped open-mouthed at Chase. His eyebrows, twisted into the shape of corkscrew <\/strong>pasta, hung over his dark eyes as they bore into Chase’s own serene gaze.<\/p>\n

Chase did not try to determine the meaning of the look. After half a minute of silence, he slid his eyes away from Tim’s. He wielded the toothpick in his glass like a spear<\/strong> and stabbed an olive <\/strong>as dark as Tim’s mood.<\/p>\n

Silence stretched long and heavy between them until Tim drew in a deep breath.<\/p>\n

Chase stopped chewing the olive and waited for what would come.<\/p>\n

Tim exploded with a single word. \u201cFlummoxed<\/strong>!?\u201d<\/p>\n

Chase raised his eyebrows in surprise. Because of the proximity of eyebrows and the partial paralysis of the area by his left temple, his eyebrows lifted from left to right in a diagonal<\/strong> line across his forehead.<\/p>\n

Tim was usually reduced to helpless laughter by this expression of Chase’s. \u201cYou look like a baby <\/strong>surprised by what you’ve just done in your diaper,\u201d he had joked on several occasions. But today Tim would not be distracted from his tirade.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou feel flummoxed? I can’t believe you just said that!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m just telling you how I feel,\u201d Chase defended himself meekly. His calm tone and low volume conveyed a sense of secrecy<\/strong> in direct opposition to Tim’s boisterous despair<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I’m telling you that I feel ridiculous. I’m a grown man. And my biggest contribution to the world is making some guy’s underwear look good so he can sell them for entirely too much money. $50 for a pair of briefs! Have you ever heard a more ridiculous thing?\u201d<\/p>\n

Chase spoke quietly. \u201cI have 6 pairs of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tim gaped at Chase again. \u201cYour grandfather, the war hero, is probably turning over in his grave.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe probably did that the first time I kissed a boy,\u201d Chase replied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tim gaped at Chase again. \u201cYour grandfather, the war hero, is probably turning over in his grave.\u201d<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-60-minute-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}