{"id":56342,"date":"2025-03-22T12:39:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T12:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=56342"},"modified":"2025-03-22T12:39:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T12:39:55","slug":"after-a-call-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=56342","title":{"rendered":"After a Call from\u00a0.."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1012.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1012.png 512w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1012-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll men are liars.\u201d With these words, Violet ended her radio program. Years of experience and countless stories had proven it. But a date with a coworker made her question her belief\u2014until a call from a stranger reaffirmed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Violet leaned toward the microphone, listening to Susan\u2019s trembling voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s pulling away\u2026 I don\u2019t know what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Violet\u2019s tone was steady. \u201cForget him. He\u2019s either cheating or stringing you along.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James, her co-host, frowned. \u201cMaybe it\u2019s stress or miscommunication.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOr a mistress,\u201d Violet said dryly. \u201cAll men are liars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, as she packed up, James lingered. \u201cYou don\u2019t actually believe that, do you?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She shrugged. \u201cWhat do you want, James?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He hesitated, then blurted, \u201cWould you go on a date with me?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She laughed. \u201cFine. But don\u2019t expect miracles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The restaurant was warm, the jazz soothing. James pulled out her chair, making her smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNot so bad, huh?\u201d he teased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t get ahead of yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As James stepped away, her phone buzzed. The moment of doubt was fleeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=56273\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAll men are liars.\u201d With these words, Violet ended her radio program. Years of experience and countless stories had proven it. But a date with a coworker&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56346,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56342\/revisions\/56346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}