{"id":10147,"date":"2015-06-06T10:55:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T17:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=10147"},"modified":"2015-06-06T10:54:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T17:54:33","slug":"yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=10147","title":{"rendered":"Yes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.<br \/>\n&#8211;James Joyce\/Ulysses<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, she breathed in his ear&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yes?<\/p>\n<p>So much in life is No.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You make me feel like yes.<\/p>\n<p>Entirely yes. Yes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Again, yes.<\/p>\n<p>Still. Yes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=10147\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s7lr3R-yes","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9712,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=9712","url_meta":{"origin":10147,"position":0},"title":"Sometimes yes means no","author":"Michelle","date":"April 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Your lips say no, no, no but your eyes say yes, yes, yes.... --Every douchebag Casanova wanna-be, including Pepe le Pew \u00a0 Without belaboring the point, I will acknowledge that on occasion people do say no when they mean yes: No, I don't want dessert...but I am planning on eating\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Words&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Words","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?cat=7"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11280,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=11280","url_meta":{"origin":10147,"position":1},"title":"Is it a yes or a no?","author":"Michelle","date":"March 20, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"At happy hour the other night, one of the guys mentioned something that resonated with me.\u00a0 He was referring to a concept I'd read about several years ago and forgotten. 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