{"id":639,"date":"2002-07-26T23:31:55","date_gmt":"2002-07-27T07:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/26\/and-her-head-pops-off\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T13:02:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T21:02:11","slug":"and-her-head-pops-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/26\/and-her-head-pops-off\/","title":{"rendered":"…and her head pops off…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n I reach down to pull off the condom.<\/p>\n

I don’t find it.<\/p>\n

I realize that Irene is sitting up.<\/p>\n

Indelicately, I reach between her legs and yank out my condom.<\/p>\n

And her head pops off and confetti flies out.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It comes from an absolutely brilliant<\/em> story posted on the Soapbox<\/a> at WWDN<\/a> by Rob Matsushita<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The story itself is spread among multiple posts in a fairly long thread<\/a> — here’s a quick breakdown of all the episodes, in order:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. September 27th, 1992<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Sometime earlier<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Meanwhile, in the present…<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Truth or treat<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. On the couch<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. The condom<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. The tape<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. The big awful<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. Payday<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. Lara<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. Coffee<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. Halloween<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. The list<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. The sign<\/a><\/li>\n
  15. Epilogue<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Indelicately, I reach between her legs and yank out my condom. And her head pops off and confetti flies out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}