{"id":581,"date":"2005-08-09T23:39:40","date_gmt":"2005-08-10T06:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=581"},"modified":"2005-08-09T23:39:40","modified_gmt":"2005-08-10T06:39:40","slug":"thuys-instruction-be-less-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=581","title":{"rendered":"Thuy&#8217;s instruction: Be less gay."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I talked to more women than men at the gym. Of course, I had to say hello to the guys I usually see, and now that I think of it I also talked to the guy who is overly exuberant in the locker room. So perhaps I didn&#8217;t follow Thuy&#8217;s instructions correctly. I did, however, find more money on the floor in the gym. It was a 20 cent Euro piece, for whatever good that does me.<\/p>\n<p>(The women I talked to hardly count. One was the woman at the desk who is super friendly and also probably 21. Another was a Harvard grad who was wearing a Harvard shirt and I just asked her if she attended the university. Another was there with her pot-bellied boyfriend and I just reminded her not to forget her iPod. Another was my neighbor Stephanie. And finally, one went to Andover Academy, a school for people who sneeze more money than I&#8217;ve seen in my life. And that counts the educational film I saw on the US Mint.)<\/p>\n<p>My torturer, er, trainer called in sick, so I was on my own to torture myself. I think I did a fair job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I talked to more women than men at the gym. Of course, I had to say hello to the guys I usually see, and now that I think of it I also talked to the guy who is overly exuberant in the locker room. So perhaps I didn&#8217;t follow Thuy&#8217;s instructions correctly. I did, however, find more money on the floor in the gym. It was a 20 cent Euro piece, for whatever good that does me. (The women I talked to hardly count. One was the woman at the desk who is super friendly and also probably 21. Another was a Harvard grad who was wearing a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=581\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thuy&#8217;s instruction: Be less gay.<\/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-581","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\/581","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=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}