{"id":21911,"date":"2023-05-12T19:02:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T23:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=21911"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:55:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:55:02","slug":"saying-the-right-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/21911","title":{"rendered":"Saying The Right Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saying The Right Thing<\/em> (2017) Aidan Wayne<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Saying<\/a>Baz is lovely,and a great father (and the kid was written like four-year-old–tantrums and all).<\/p>\n

Terry is kind and has plenty of reasons for not trusting those who want to date him.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t a bad story, but it didn’t hit any of the right notes for me, and I can’t decide if it was the story or if it was me.<\/p>\n

Rating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saying The Right Thing (2017) Aidan Wayne Baz is lovely,and a great father (and the kid was written like four-year-old–tantrums and all). Terry is kind and has plenty of reasons for not trusting those who want to date him. It wasn’t a bad story, but it didn’t hit any of the right notes for me, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[292,196,148,26,56],"tags":[379,50,544,550],"class_list":["post-21911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebook","category-novella","category-queer","category-romance","category-sexual-content","tag-aidan-wayne","tag-boinking","tag-mm","tag-trans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-5Hp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14275,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/14275","url_meta":{"origin":21911,"position":0},"title":"Not So Cookie Cutter","author":"Michelle","date":"May 7, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Not So Cookie Cutter (2019) Aidan Wayne He clasped his hands behind his back, at-ease stance so he wouldn\u2019t cross his arms. 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