{"id":2420,"date":"2016-01-07T21:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2016-01-08T15:59:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T23:59:56","slug":"title-humans-of-western","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/title-humans-of-western\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans of Western"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Megan Clark\r\nCampus Life Editor<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Curtis Yehnert, Professor of English Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was getting my doctorate at Ohio State [&#8230;] I heard this laugh downstairs, a woman\u2019s laugh and&#8230;It really did something to me, and it was so strange. It turned out to be my roommate\u2019s new girlfriend, and her name was Heather. I had not been dating for a while, so he, out of pity, started inviting me to go out with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI became increasingly attracted to Heather and so finally, since I liked him a lot, I said, \u2018Mike, you got to stop inviting me out with you and Heather when you go out.\u2019 And he said, \u2018Why?\u2019 And I said, \u2018Well don\u2019t tell Heather, but I feel really attracted to her.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next day I was in my office, and there she was. She came up and she had on a strappy little thing and held her shoes in her hand, I remember that. She said, \u2018Mike told me what you said.\u2019 She said, \u2018I don\u2019t want to go out with him anymore, I want to go out with you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that was twenty four years ago, and we\u2019re still together, we\u2019re still very much in love.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen I was getting my doctorate at Ohio State [&#8230;] I heard this laugh downstairs, a woman\u2019s laugh and&#8230;It really did something to me, and it was so strange. It turned out to be my roommate\u2019s new girlfriend, and her name was Heather. I had not been dating for a while, so he, out of pity, started inviting me to go out with them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":2474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}