{"id":19380,"date":"2013-04-09T18:36:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T18:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/04\/09\/morethis-time-two-years-ago-if-id-told\/"},"modified":"2013-04-09T18:36:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T18:36:37","slug":"morethis-time-two-years-ago-if-id-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/04\/09\/morethis-time-two-years-ago-if-id-told\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- more -->this time two years ago, if I&rsquo;d told myself I would be in a loving, permanent D\/s relationship, there would have been scornful laughter the likes of which this world has never seen.<\/p>\n<p>but here I am, with an understanding of power and grace and strength and support that goes beyond what I could have imagined. we fall seamlessly in and out of play and seriousness, always equals but always understanding why we need the other. he&rsquo;s my warrior, and I protect him too.<\/p>\n<p>it&rsquo;s not about toys (though we have a collection), it&rsquo;s not about knots (though we tie them), it&rsquo;s not about pain (though there is discomfort when the time is right). it&rsquo;s the natural rise and fall of strength and energy, and about finding loving ways to feel in control in a world where everything else can fall apart at any moment. \u00a0<span>it&rsquo;s about surrender and responsibility for both of us.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>and it&rsquo;s beautiful.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this time two years ago, if I&rsquo;d told myself I would be in a loving, permanent D\/s relationship, there would have been scornful laughter the likes of which this world has never seen. but here I am, with an understanding of power and grace and strength and support that goes beyond what I could have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/04\/09\/morethis-time-two-years-ago-if-id-told\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1077,7395],"class_list":["post-19380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-meandyou","tag-relationship-dynamics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}