{"id":2720,"date":"2014-10-10T01:28:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T01:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2014\/10\/10\/the-meaning-of-the-monocle-27\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T01:28:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T01:28:03","slug":"the-meaning-of-the-monocle-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2014\/10\/10\/the-meaning-of-the-monocle-27\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of the Monocle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/smokebombsandmirrors.tumblr.com\/post\/99608583210\/the-meaning-of-the-monocle\">smokebombsandmirrors<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He snorted he couldn\u2019t help it the laughter just started bubbling out of him. \u201d I\u2019m sorry! I\u2019m sorry! Its just \u2026 Out of anything you could have said \u2026 could have toasted to tonight \u2026. you said.\u201d\u00a0<br \/>He straightened and sighed. He wiped his eyes and rubbed his aching sides. \u201cYou really are adorable you know that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/be9fcf552fd6115873ab72fda12aaad8\/tumblr_inline_nd7g2lROLM1rms2iz.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I thought it was a\u00a0<em>good<\/em> toast,&rdquo; Hakuba said, tone defensive though he relaxed a little bit. &ldquo;And I&rsquo;m not\u00a0adorable. I was just being scientific. I couldn&rsquo;t toast to a relationship because I&rsquo;m not sure where we stand, I couldn&rsquo;t toast to first kisses because that\u00a0<em>wasn&rsquo;t,\u00a0<\/em>technically, and I couldn&rsquo;t toast to new beginnings because, again, I don&rsquo;t know where we stand and where I&rsquo;m going to end up or anything like that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The detective huffed again, looking into his glass. The wine was beautiful, at least, and he knew it would be incredible. Soon, so soon, he&rsquo;d be able to drink. If he could get through this conversation, anyway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s simply&hellip; linear to toast to working things out, because that&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;ll have to do first thing to move on to anything else. Everything has a logical order to reach any conclusion. So, working things out&hellip; the spirit of a common goal, a fresh start, a&hellip;&quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hakuba winced and then looked back to Kaito, sticking his tongue out. &quot;You&rsquo;re always taking the mick out.\u00a0<em>You<\/em> pick something to toast to.&quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>smokebombsandmirrors: He snorted he couldn\u2019t help it the laughter just started bubbling out of him. \u201d I\u2019m sorry! I\u2019m sorry! Its just \u2026 Out of anything you could have said \u2026 could have toasted to tonight \u2026. you said.\u201d\u00a0He straightened and sighed. He wiped his eyes and rubbed his aching sides. \u201cYou really are adorable [&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-2720","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\/2720","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=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}