{"id":841,"date":"2020-02-03T18:27:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T23:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=841"},"modified":"2020-04-30T06:28:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T10:28:55","slug":"forlorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/forlorn\/","title":{"rendered":"forlorn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the end of Grade 9, my family relocated from Riyadh to Amman. This would be the first time in years that I would be back into a mixed school. I had been in an all-boys school for the past six years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was 14 years old at the time, so this relocation, unfortunately for me, coincided with my hormones firing up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a few weeks of settling into Grade 10, I wanted so badly to know what it feels like to have a girlfriend that I went about systematically asking out every single girl in class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started with the one I thought was the most attractive, and, rejection after rejection, worked my way down the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn\u2019t walk up to the girls and ask them out. Nope. That would be the normal thing to do. Instead, I wrote them love letters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/classic-close-up-draw-expensive-372748-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-842\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/classic-close-up-draw-expensive-372748-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/classic-close-up-draw-expensive-372748-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/classic-close-up-draw-expensive-372748-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/classic-close-up-draw-expensive-372748-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/classic-close-up-draw-expensive-372748.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Photo by\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@pixabay?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Pixabay<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/classic-close-up-draw-expensive-372748\/?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Pexels<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Long story short, after writing letters (no copy-paste, all personalized, all rejected) to every single girl in Grade 10A, B, C, and D, and then attempting Grade 9s as well, I didn\u2019t get a girlfriend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I got really good at writing love letters!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of Grade 9, my family relocated from Riyadh to Amman. This would be the first time in years that I would be back into a mixed school. I had been in an all-boys school for the past six years. I was 14 years old at the time, so this relocation, unfortunately for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/forlorn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;forlorn&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}