{"id":5092,"date":"2015-12-05T18:30:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T18:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2015\/12\/05\/inkskinned-when-i-was-12-i-babysat-this-girl\/"},"modified":"2015-12-05T18:30:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T18:30:58","slug":"inkskinned-when-i-was-12-i-babysat-this-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2015\/12\/05\/inkskinned-when-i-was-12-i-babysat-this-girl\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/inkskinned.tumblr.com\/post\/134538022444\">inkskinned<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>when i was 12 i babysat this girl for a few years and she would come to me and show me her art, drag me by my wrists and point at the pieces she\u2019d made during the week. and she\u2019d be like\u00a0\u201cdo the voice\u201d and i\u2019d put on a sports-announcer olympics-style voice and be like\u00a0\u201csuch form! this level of coloring! why i haven\u2019t seen such perfection in crayola in a long time. and what is this? why jeff, now this is a true risk\u2026 it seems she\u2019s made \u2026 a monochrome pink canvas\u2026. i haven\u2019t seen this attempted since winter 1932\u2026 and i gotta say, jeff, it\u2019s absolutely splendid\u201d \u00a0and she\u2019d fall back giggling. at the end of every night she\u2019d check with me:\u00a0\u201cdid you really like it?\u201d and i\u2019d say yes and talk about something i noticed and tucked her in.<\/p>\n<p>she was just accepted into 3 major art schools. she wrote me a letter. inside was a picture from when she was younger. monochrome pink.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cthank you,\u201d it said,\u00a0\u201cto somebody who saw the best in me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>inkskinned: when i was 12 i babysat this girl for a few years and she would come to me and show me her art, drag me by my wrists and point at the pieces she\u2019d made during the week. and she\u2019d be like\u00a0\u201cdo the voice\u201d and i\u2019d put on a sports-announcer olympics-style voice and be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2015\/12\/05\/inkskinned-when-i-was-12-i-babysat-this-girl\/\" 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":[3066,65],"class_list":["post-5092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-inspiring-each-others","tag-long-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092","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=5092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}