{"id":431,"date":"2005-03-03T23:59:04","date_gmt":"2005-03-04T07:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=431"},"modified":"2005-03-06T13:05:14","modified_gmt":"2005-03-06T21:05:14","slug":"gaming-the-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"Gaming the system."},"content":{"rendered":"

My boss has studied a lot of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fast seduction” and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153get a girl tonight” kind of books and likes manipulating women for his own amusement. He found out that I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do so well at speed dating and said if I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t read the instructions and buy into this whole smarmy control structure, that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be fired. (He often \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fires” me for the songs I have on my iPod which includes lots of 80\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s schlock.)<\/p>\n

Well, I told my sister about this and she said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hah. Like you could get any of that to work” My friend Greg thinks that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be overcome by my honest streak (which is a way of saying I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t keep my frigging mouth shut).<\/p>\n

In any case, I found information on the intarweb about how to seduce women. It seems kinda cheesy. It probably works, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if it fits into my goals in life. Those goals are a mystery even to myself, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think it includes becoming the ass-master of Portland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My boss has studied a lot of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fast seduction” and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153get a girl tonight” kind of books and likes manipulating women for his own amusement. He found out that I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do so well at speed dating and said if I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t read the instructions and buy into this whole smarmy control structure, that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be fired. (He often \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fires” me for the songs I have on my iPod which includes lots of 80\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s schlock.) Well, I told my sister about this and she said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hah. Like you could get any of that to work” My friend Greg thinks that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be overcome by my honest streak (which is … Continue reading Gaming the system.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","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\/431","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=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}