{"id":13590,"date":"2017-07-31T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bullmensfiction.com\/?p=13590"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:14:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:14:25","slug":"male-bonding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/fiction\/male-bonding\/","title":{"rendered":"Male Bonding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Switching lanes at eighty without a signal, you bite the Baby Ruth to the wrapper, snap fingers, press play and shout, \u201cYeah! I don\u2019t care what people say\u2014Nugent\u2019s got balls!\u201d Raising your voice to compete with \u201cCat Scratch Fever\u201d you ask, \u201cDid you hear what that cocksucker Davis said to me? God, he jerks me.\u201d You\u2019re pointing out the window. \u201cIs that a guy?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Knoxville spreads ugly and gray below the overpass. A man as tiny as a bug falls between skyscrapers, arms and legs flailing, and then he\u2019s gone. I almost wonder if I\u2019ve imagined him or if he\u2019s just another insect on the windshield, but you\u2019re smiling and I have the urge to say <em>Don\u2019t<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cO.K., I know I didn\u2019t just see a dude fall off a fucking building!\u201d You whoop and punch the ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re going to have to resurface the road,\u201d I say. \u201cThat guy\u2019s applesauce.\u201d I force a grin as cars whip past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switching lanes at eighty without a signal, you bite the Baby Ruth to the wrapper, snap fingers, press play and shout, \u201cYeah! I don\u2019t care what people say\u2014Nugent\u2019s got balls!\u201d Raising your voice to compete with \u201cCat Scratch Fever\u201d you ask, \u201cDid you hear what that cocksucker Davis said to me? God, he jerks me.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[863,1238,1237],"class_list":["post-13590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","tag-flash-fiction","tag-male-bonding","tag-micro-fiction","writer-john-talbird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13891,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13590\/revisions\/13891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}