{"id":1889,"date":"2018-05-17T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2018-06-21T10:26:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T14:26:52","slug":"when-love-gives-way-to-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/when-love-gives-way-to-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"When Love Gives Way to Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre style=\"text-align: center;\">When Love Gives Way to Lies\r\nBy Janie Cao\r\nEdited by Shaun Webb<\/pre>\n<pre style=\"text-align: left;\">One evening on my way back from a hospital shift, I saw a woman staggering along the street. Half walking\u2026 half falling\u2026 It looked like she was trying to get back home after spending some time at the nearby bar.\r\n\r\nI didn\u2019t know how I was supposed to respond as an almost-doctor. But it didn\u2019t feel quite right to just leave her be, especially when she was drunk and in the dark, all alone.\r\n\r\nBy the time I drove to her, she was already in the parking lot of her apartment complex. I got out anyways, just to say \u201cHi.\u201d\r\n\r\nI remember when she turned and looked at me. She paused. And in those moments of silence, I saw heartache.\u00a0 There was also sadness, anger, and a pain that would leave marks. It didn\u2019t matter that she didn\u2019t know me enough to trust me. There was too much hurt to hide. As I watched her eyes, I remember wanting so much to stop her from feeling that night.\r\n\r\nFinally, she chuckled and smiled bitterly. \u201cMy husband\u2026\u201d she said. Then she gave me a kiss goodbye.\r\n\r\nShe never finished her sentence, but I wonder if it had something to do with this: that when a husband hurts his wife, and love gives way to lies, it can simply be called life. I went home after, and cried.\r\n\r\n----\r\nbased on a true story<\/pre>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Photo credit:\u00a0<a class=\"owner-name truncate\" title=\"Go to Bernard Laguerre's photostream\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aldor\/\" data-track=\"attributionNameClick\" data-rapid_p=\"61\">Bernard Laguerre<\/a><\/p>\n<pre style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Love Gives Way to Lies By Janie Cao Edited by Shaun Webb One evening on my way back from a hospital shift, I saw a woman staggering along the street. Half walking\u2026 half falling\u2026 It looked like she was trying to get back home after spending some time at the nearby bar. I didn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":1890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[201,408,9,8,11],"tags":[495,494,496,493,348],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1900,"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions\/1900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}