{"id":2705,"date":"2014-10-10T10:08:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T10:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2014\/10\/10\/the-meaning-of-the-monocle-23\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T10:08:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T10:08:17","slug":"the-meaning-of-the-monocle-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2014\/10\/10\/the-meaning-of-the-monocle-23\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of the Monocle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/smokebombsandmirrors.tumblr.com\/post\/99635586185\/the-meaning-of-the-monocle\">smokebombsandmirrors<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Kaito turned to him and measured him carefully and debated internally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I\u2019ve been celibate for the past year, Hakuba. I\u2019ve also never dated anyone before that. No one. So I can hold true to your request. I can try.&rdquo; He answered just as calm. At least his voice was. His knees how ever were shaking.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/ab5ece144c3fabb794eecfa9349a2894\/tumblr_inline_nd83y7cahc1rms2iz.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Grateful though he was that Kaito apparently hadn&rsquo;t noticed that he&rsquo;d passed song lyrics off as legitimate words in a serious conversation, Hakuba couldn&rsquo;t help but feel the tiniest big disappointed, too. Mostly because the significance of the prose was&hellip; well, it didn&rsquo;t matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Kaito was willing to try did, though. That he <em>wanted<\/em> to.\u00a0It mattered a great deal, and it changed everything.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Kuroba-kun,&rdquo; Hakuba said, expression softening, giving a warm smile. He was still terrified &ndash; of everything &ndash; but this&hellip; &ldquo;If you can promise me, I promise, too&hellip; I would be honored to be yours, and you mine.&quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>smokebombsandmirrors: Kaito turned to him and measured him carefully and debated internally.\u00a0 &ldquo;I\u2019ve been celibate for the past year, Hakuba. I\u2019ve also never dated anyone before that. No one. So I can hold true to your request. I can try.&rdquo; He answered just as calm. At least his voice was. His knees how ever were [&hellip;]<\/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":[76,75,234,1933,77],"class_list":["post-2705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ic","tag-rp","tag-smokebombsandmirrors","tag-the-meaning-of-the-monocle","tag-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}