{"id":2357,"date":"2011-04-08T13:38:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T20:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2011-04-08T13:38:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T20:38:18","slug":"i-want-to-be-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=2357","title":{"rendered":"I want to be normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>you know&#8230; the typical Singaporean who works late, works super hard and feels super tired everyday&#8230; the kind who stomachs being upset and angry but have to remain speechless.. and the type that save all the hard earn money just to get married, buy a flat and settle down. Yes! I wanna be that type and I had always envisioned myself to be like that&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p>I like working, I like being upset and angry, I like saving money&#8230;life may not be a bed of roses but knowing that at the end of the day, we&#8217;ll come home to the same place mks everything worth it.. I just wanna be where you are and not be torn apart by my work  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Go back first and we&#8217;ll work this out&#8230;&#8221; When? How? I feel like a child being left at a child-care centre, waiting for my parent to bring me home&#8230;what if my parent did not come as promised? <\/p>\n<p>This time, I&#8217;m not the child, I&#8217;m your wife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>you know&#8230; the typical Singaporean who works late, works super hard and feels super tired everyday&#8230; the kind who stomachs being upset and angry but have to remain speechless.. and the type that save all the hard earn money just to get married, buy a flat and settle down. Yes! I wanna be that type &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=2357\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I want to be normal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}