{"id":1009,"date":"2026-02-04T14:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2026-02-04T14:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:07:09","slug":"she-texted-the-wrong-number-then-made-it-feel-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/?p=1009","title":{"rendered":"She Texted the Wrong Number \u2014 Then Made It Feel Right"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>You still owe me a midnight confession.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wrong number \u2014 I told her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I don\u2019t think so. You read it. That counts.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I should\u2019ve stopped replying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead I asked what confession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her answer took a minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What you think about when you\u2019re trying to behave.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A photo followed \u2014 just her lips near a glass, eyes over the rim, direct and challenging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Call me,<\/strong> she wrote.<br><strong>Let\u2019s see if your voice matches your restraint.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My phone started ringing before I decided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You still owe me a midnight confession. Wrong number \u2014 I told her. I don\u2019t think so. You read it. That counts. I should\u2019ve stopped replying. Instead I asked what confession. Her answer took a minute. What you think about when you\u2019re trying to behave. A photo followed \u2014 just her lips near a glass, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-funny-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}