{"id":4420,"date":"2014-01-05T10:59:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T10:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2014\/01\/05\/kaitomagic-the-patterns-on-the-ceiling-were\/"},"modified":"2014-01-05T10:59:33","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T10:59:33","slug":"kaitomagic-the-patterns-on-the-ceiling-were","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2014\/01\/05\/kaitomagic-the-patterns-on-the-ceiling-were\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/kaitomagic.tumblr.com\/post\/72310432542\/the-patterns-on-the-ceiling-were-familiar\">kaitomagic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The patterns on the ceiling were familiar. Textured scrapings of paint, put there intentionally to make it more aesthetically pleasing. The walls\u2026 they were familiar, too. He had spent a lot of time with them, this last couple of weeks\u2026 staring at them when he couldn\u2019t sleep. Leaning against them for support when enough pain welled up to the surface again that his own legs could no longer hold him up. Hitting them when even that became too much. There were holes in the drywall that he\u2019d have to explain whenever his mother came home again\u2026 but that didn\u2019t really matter. All that mattered, right then, was that the sheets were still familiar, too. The fact that he could turn his head, move close to the pillow\u2026 and he could still smell him. Though it was fading with every day, he could still pick out the scent of soft cologne and earl gray\u2026 and the smell of his skin. Though the warmth was gone\u2026 and he knew it would never return. Just like the emptiness he\u2019d never known was there before the detective had filled it would never recover from the loss and realization of its own inadequacy.<\/em><br \/><em>He\u2019d always heard that there were worse things than death\u2026 and he understood what it meant, now.<\/em><br \/><em>Because he was the survivor.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/cd9558380f58e3f6e282283bdbc0968f\/tumblr_inline_myxd6hmZAT1rms2iz.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>kaitomagic: The patterns on the ceiling were familiar. Textured scrapings of paint, put there intentionally to make it more aesthetically pleasing. The walls\u2026 they were familiar, too. He had spent a lot of time with them, this last couple of weeks\u2026 staring at them when he couldn\u2019t sleep. Leaning against them for support when enough [&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":[197,1669,1713,334,1253,3464,437],"class_list":["post-4420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kaitomagic","tag-ow","tag-ow-ow-ow","tag-sob","tag-spark","tag-the","tag-why"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420","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=4420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}