{"id":4051,"date":"2014-02-16T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=4051"},"modified":"2014-02-15T21:53:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T05:53:41","slug":"an-imaginary-argument-about-mind-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=4051","title":{"rendered":"An argument about mind reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want to get together later?<br \/>\nYes.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nYes, and?<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nYes, I want to get together later.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nShall I read your mind to divine where you would like to meet and where you would like to go?<br \/>\nCould you?<br \/>\nAss.<br \/>\nIt would be really convenient.<br \/>\nOh, please. You&#8217;d fucking hate it if I knew what you wanted all the time.<br \/>\nYou wouldn&#8217;t have to ask me questions all the time.<br \/>\nUnless you could read *my* mind, I&#8217;d still have to talk to you though.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t you like talking to me?<br \/>\nIt is a challenge.<br \/>\nDoing things that are a challenge is good for you.<br \/>\nIf you don&#8217;t tell me what you want to do tonight, one thing I will *not* be doing is you.<br \/>\nYou can be kind of humorless sometimes, you know?<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know what to do with you.<br \/>\nMeet me at my place. I&#8217;ll let you do me. Without talking.<br \/>\nI hate you.<br \/>\nI love you.<br \/>\nShut up.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s why I don&#8217;t talk. It always ends with you telling me to shut up.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re doing it wrong.<br \/>\nWhen I do *you* it will be right.<br \/>\nDoes that mean you want to stay in?<br \/>\nRead my mind&#8230;<br \/>\nHmmm. Your mind tells me you want to go ice skating? How surprising. I had no idea you like it.<br \/>\nDo I?<br \/>\nYou do!<br \/>\nHuh. You&#8217;re always teaching me things about myself.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s my pleasure.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re such a&#8230;<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s not nice!<br \/>\nWhat?<br \/>\nI heard what you were thinking.<br \/>\nAlright, Tonya Harding. Ready to go skating?<br \/>\nMaybe we should stay in.<br \/>\nYou read my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want to get together later? Yes. &#8230; &#8230; Yes, and? &#8230; &#8230; Yes, I want to get together later. &#8230; &#8230; Shall I read your mind to divine where you would like to meet and where you would like to go? Could you? Ass. It would be really convenient. Oh, please. You&#8217;d fucking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=4051\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An argument about mind reading<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-13l","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3874,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=3874","url_meta":{"origin":4051,"position":0},"title":"Say what?","author":"Michelle","date":"February 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"My mind swirls around. 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