{"id":1437,"date":"2007-09-26T22:47:48","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T05:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2007-09-27T20:39:01","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T03:39:01","slug":"gym-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1437","title":{"rendered":"Gym rules."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was kind of told today that there are gym rules. Don&#8217;t talk to people. Don&#8217;t make eye contact. The only verbalization is to say, &#8220;Hey buddy, need a spot?&#8221; But I have to say, &#8220;Eff that.&#8221; Already I&#8217;ve decided that the last guy who is mad at me is humorless and should be nicknamed, &#8220;Precious.&#8221; I want to say, &#8220;HEY BUDDY, I WAS MAKING FUN OF YOUR TOO-TIGHT MUSCLE T-SHIRTS. YOU WEAR THEM EXCLUSIVELY. YOU DO THAT TOO MUCH AND PEOPLE ARE GONNA THINK YOU&#8217;RE A NARCISSIST.&#8221; I was going to say, &#8220;THINK YOU&#8217;RE GAY,&#8221; but he is gay. Wouldn&#8217;t be making much of a point there.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m probably being a little harsh there, but humorlessness should not be tolerated. That and poor use of grammar even though I have noticed that my muscle memory on the keyboard makes me type, &#8220;you&#8217;re,&#8221; even when I mean, &#8220;your.&#8221; I have to watch that. I broke up with a woman once because she couldn&#8217;t spell, &#8220;Surprise.&#8221; Well, OK, that&#8217;s just one reason and it&#8217;s just because I have issues, but I can say it&#8217;s because she couldn&#8217;t spell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was kind of told today that there are gym rules. Don&#8217;t talk to people. Don&#8217;t make eye contact. The only verbalization is to say, &#8220;Hey buddy, need a spot?&#8221; But I have to say, &#8220;Eff that.&#8221; Already I&#8217;ve decided that the last guy who is mad at me is humorless and should be nicknamed, &#8220;Precious.&#8221; I want to say, &#8220;HEY BUDDY, I WAS MAKING FUN OF YOUR TOO-TIGHT MUSCLE T-SHIRTS. YOU WEAR THEM EXCLUSIVELY. YOU DO THAT TOO MUCH AND PEOPLE ARE GONNA THINK YOU&#8217;RE A NARCISSIST.&#8221; I was going to say, &#8220;THINK YOU&#8217;RE GAY,&#8221; but he is gay. Wouldn&#8217;t be making much of a point there. I&#8217;m probably &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1437\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gym rules.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}