{"id":1180,"date":"2018-12-31T09:18:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2018-12-31T09:18:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:18:51","slug":"second-skin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1180","title":{"rendered":"Second Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mick was always an awkward fellow. He tried to be a regular dude like everybody else but it never really felt right.\u00a0 He did his best to dress normal, he had an average haircut, dated respectable girls\u2026even got a boring middle management job in a large corporation, just as everybody expected, still, Mick was never quite comfortable.\u00a0 He had the constant urge to break out of the box, jump up and sing, to run about, dancing with joy\u00a0to be free.\u00a0 He struggled with it every day\u2026and sometimes he slipped;\u00a0 He would catch himself about to smear his face with lipstick and crack lewd jokes \u2013 or smash his bosses face down into the banana cream pie he accidentally brought to work \u2013 or pull out the condiment bottles he had in his trouser pockets (for some strange reason) and paste everyone in the board room with goopy ketchup and mustard.\u00a0 Worse, some days he would get all the way to work and realize he\u2019d worn one striped sock and one plaid sock (weird).\u00a0 And every day it just got harder and harder to fight the urge to shred his dull grey business suit, to peel off his own mundane skin and release the amazing, passionate (spectacular) monster that was trapped inside\u2026..and one day, when he no longer had a reason not to\u2026he did just that.<\/p>\n

***The first post of 2019.\u00a0 Scrape off all the crap and the crud and wash away the slime of last year so you can be clear headed and\u00a0ready for the clusterfuck that\u2019s coming.\u00a0 The image above was adapted from an Analog Magazine spread John did in 2013…then used as the BIO page illustration in our 3rd book,”Bludgeon the Clown” for EEW Books.\u00a0 Find our books at www.sallemander.com.\u00a0 \u00a0-Marsha<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Mick was always an awkward fellow. He tried to be a regular dude like everybody else but it never really felt right.\u00a0 He did his best to dress normal, he had an average haircut, dated respectable girls\u2026even got a boring middle management job in a large corporation, just as everybody expected, still, Mick was … Continue reading Second Skin<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242,125,150],"tags":[56,250,210,105,128,248,38,176,99,96,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1183,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}