{"id":13123,"date":"2026-07-29T13:38:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/?p=13123"},"modified":"2026-07-29T13:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:38:24","slug":"obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/obsession\/","title":{"rendered":"Obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"

As is so often the case, days after my last post about my gentle infatuation with Sam Neill, I came across a related article in the New York Times.
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For the record, no, I don\u2019t think my slight crush counts as limerence, a condition I\u2019d never even heard of until this week. Here\u2019s hoping this link works, meant to be a free share of the article:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/09\/well\/mind\/love-attraction-limerence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1VA.4bep.mvNye1Xl-lQ3&smid=url-share<\/a><\/p>\n

If it was limerence, there\u2019d be no shortage of self help books to help me get over it.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m more interested in the fact that I\u2019m once again up with the zeitgeist, relevant as ever, in spite of eschewing social media. Take that, Zuckerberg, Musk, et al!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As is so often the case, days after my last post about my gentle infatuation with Sam Neill, I came across a related article in the New York Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Ukf-3pF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11559,"url":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/bruised\/","url_meta":{"origin":13123,"position":0},"title":"Bruised","author":"Interloper11","date":"March 21, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u2019ve been on low dose aspirin for about fifteen years. 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