{"id":186,"date":"2019-11-15T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/2019\/11\/15\/look-at-the-moon-he-said\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T20:31:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:31:52","slug":"look-at-the-moon-he-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/2019\/11\/15\/look-at-the-moon-he-said\/","title":{"rendered":"Look At the Moon, He Said"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t really know what to say that hasn’t already been said.<\/p>\n

There was a night when the moon was full. Its light danced with the water just so. I often message my best friend all the way in California when the moon is like that. This time I didn’t have to because she was right there looking at the same moon. The beautiful noise of the punk rock cruise subsided. I put my arm under hers and put my head on her shoulder. We said nothing. We just stared out at the moon.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I cried. I don’t think she caught on that I was crying. I wasn’t sad. I wanted time to stop. Just for a little while. I wanted to move around in that moment. Dance in it. Laugh in it.<\/p>\n

Lean into it.<\/p>\n

I thought about the year I’d had and the year she’d had and was glad each of us survived. Her year is her story to tell, but I can say that I got off a lot easier than her. I wanted my best friend to just be okay.<\/p>\n

I cried because I am happy. Happy tears are the best kind of tears. I find that the moon has a habit of bringing them out.<\/p>\n

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I don’t really know what to say that hasn’t already been said. There was a night when the moon was full. Its light danced with the water just so. I often message my best friend all the way in California when the moon is like that. This time I didn’t have to because she was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oxygen_hide_in_design_set":false,"_oxygen_tags":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,48],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flogging-molly-cruise","category-salty-dog-cruise","tag-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}