{"id":5237,"date":"2012-02-14T23:20:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T07:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=5237"},"modified":"2012-02-14T23:20:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T07:20:01","slug":"stupid-valentimes-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=5237","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Valentimes day."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, how romantic can I get? I read a comic book series that fell off the intarwebs onto my hard drive, I watched &lt;b&gt;Comic Book Men&lt;\/b&gt; on AMC, and then watched &lt;b&gt;How I Met Your Mother&lt;\/b&gt; &#8217;cause it was on my DVR. Sorta romantical, innit?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m on a couple of dating sites. The more legitimate one keeps sending me women who don&#8217;t exist and are probably wanting me to send money to Nigeria. The other one has matched me up with lesbians in the past, but recently it matched me up with a woman who said, &#8220;I won&#8217;t date anyone shorter than me.&#8221; This made me think a bit. How nice to have one thing to be measured against and I wonder how I fare. She says she&#8217;s 5&#8217;10&#8221;, but is she rounding up? I&#8217;m sort of 5&#8217;9\u00bd&#8221;, but that&#8217;s just between what I probably am in the morning and what I probably am at night. And the last time the doctor measured me (the most official measurement, probably), I took my shoes off and it told me I was 5&#8217;8\u00bd&#8221;. (Of course I wasn&#8217;t having any of that and I got out a book and a tape measure when I got home and was just over 5&#8217;9&#8243;.)<\/p>\n<p>But honestly, how nice to have something like linear me sure to use to weed me out before I get turned down because of some personal failings. She probably doesn&#8217;t like Asians either, but whatever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, how romantic can I get? I read a comic book series that fell off the intarwebs onto my hard drive, I watched &lt;b&gt;Comic Book Men&lt;\/b&gt; on AMC, and then watched &lt;b&gt;How I Met Your Mother&lt;\/b&gt; &#8217;cause it was on my DVR. Sorta romantical, innit? I&#8217;m on a couple of dating sites. The more legitimate one keeps sending me women who don&#8217;t exist and are probably wanting me to send money to Nigeria. The other one has matched me up with lesbians in the past, but recently it matched me up with a woman who said, &#8220;I won&#8217;t date anyone shorter than me.&#8221; This made me think a bit. How &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=5237\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stupid Valentimes day.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5237","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\/5237","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=5237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5239,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions\/5239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}