{"id":593,"date":"2025-04-30T20:03:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T20:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-vaughanstout\/?p=593"},"modified":"2025-05-06T19:28:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T19:28:48","slug":"talent-doesnt-make-the-meal-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-vaughanstout\/talent-doesnt-make-the-meal-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Talent Doesn&#8217;t Make the Meal Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Talent Doesn\u2019t Make the Meal Good<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s only been a month, and I can\u2019t keep putting this off. What if she finds out I can\u2019t cook? She won\u2019t see me any differently, would she?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thoughts swirl in my head as I twist the doorknob to her already unlocked apartment. I take a deep breath as I step in. She meets me at the door. Her brunette curls roll off her shoulders as she wraps a gentle hand behind my neck and pulls me in for a kiss. Fireworks. There\u2019s never not fireworks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI can\u2019t cook,\u201d I blurt, flustered again by her confidence. She doubles over, laughing, a hand tightly squeezing my arm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Was that that funny,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I think to myself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cOh god, neither can I!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If one could see us as she boils rice while I attempt to chop baby carrots and sear the ground beef, you would think you were looking at two poor, hopeless college partners. But if one could see my eyes as I smile at her every success and mistake, you would think you saw stars.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talent Doesn\u2019t Make the Meal Good It\u2019s only been a month, and I can\u2019t keep putting this off. What if she finds out I can\u2019t cook? She won\u2019t see me any differently, would she? Thoughts swirl in my head as I twist the doorknob to her already unlocked apartment. I take a deep breath as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4488,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-vaughanstout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-vaughanstout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-vaughanstout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-vaughanstout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-vaughanstout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-vaughanstout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-vaughanstout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-vaughanstout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-vaughanstout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}