{"id":4348,"date":"2010-12-14T23:04:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T07:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4348"},"modified":"2010-12-14T23:04:27","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T07:04:27","slug":"the-king-of-shaky-ladders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4348","title":{"rendered":"The king of shaky ladders."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like looking at dating web sites especially when they&#8217;ve used their broken criteria to match me with people that would never want to date me. ARE YOU SIX FEET OR TALLER? (No, and I believe I&#8217;m shrinking according to my doctor&#8217;s office.) ARE YOU A LESBIAN? (While my sister insists I&#8217;m gay, nobody&#8217;s ever mistaken me for a lesbian.) ARE YOU 25? (I was at some point, but that was back when Ronald Reagan was president.) I AM A VEGAN. (And I&#8217;m a lacto-ovo-pesco-carnivo-vegetarian. In fact, I probably don&#8217;t always eat vegetables if there&#8217;s a nice slice of bacon to be had.) Nice to know I&#8217;m not wanted.<\/p>\n<p>I did have a good time on the gym&#8217;s borrowed ladder. It wasn&#8217;t exactly straight and it was a rattly aluminum ladder like I prefer, covered in rotten leaves but still it was a ladder. I do have some fear of heights that I can usually suppress, but I noticed I was sweating quite a bit and I wasn&#8217;t dangling off the thing like my dad used to be able to do. Ah well.<\/p>\n<p>Time for Mr. Excitement to update the credit card info on all his bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like looking at dating web sites especially when they&#8217;ve used their broken criteria to match me with people that would never want to date me. ARE YOU SIX FEET OR TALLER? (No, and I believe I&#8217;m shrinking according to my doctor&#8217;s office.) ARE YOU A LESBIAN? (While my sister insists I&#8217;m gay, nobody&#8217;s ever mistaken me for a lesbian.) ARE YOU 25? (I was at some point, but that was back when Ronald Reagan was president.) I AM A VEGAN. (And I&#8217;m a lacto-ovo-pesco-carnivo-vegetarian. In fact, I probably don&#8217;t always eat vegetables if there&#8217;s a nice slice of bacon to be had.) Nice to know I&#8217;m not wanted. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4348\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The king of shaky ladders.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4348","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\/4348","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4349,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348\/revisions\/4349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}