{"id":675,"date":"2005-11-18T23:31:30","date_gmt":"2005-11-19T07:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/archives\/675"},"modified":"2005-11-18T23:31:30","modified_gmt":"2005-11-19T07:31:30","slug":"carolyns-right-why-do-i-bother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=675","title":{"rendered":"Carolyn&#8217;s right. Why do I bother?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my post just got eaten. Yeesh.<\/p>\n<p>The post was something about how I probably shouldn&#8217;t bother checking out the singles sites or even trying anything online because I never get replies, or if I do it&#8217;s mostly from fake women or women who are being paid to pretend to be who they&#8217;re not. But how is that different than what I usually do?<\/p>\n<p>At the gym today I talked to the woman with the broken phone (turns out Earthlink sent her the wrong hardware) and she was telling us that one of her friends at the gym wouldn&#8217;t talk to her any longer. Turns out they went on a date and it didn&#8217;t go the way he wanted it to go. Sounds stinky that he doesn&#8217;t talk to her any longer. But I told her that I don&#8217;t ask out anyone at work or anyone from places I go to all the time, so that just means I don&#8217;t ask anyone out at all.<\/p>\n<p>Funny how I end up disappointed even when I try to avoid any risk.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s just life as I know it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my post just got eaten. Yeesh. The post was something about how I probably shouldn&#8217;t bother checking out the singles sites or even trying anything online because I never get replies, or if I do it&#8217;s mostly from fake women or women who are being paid to pretend to be who they&#8217;re not. But how is that different than what I usually do? At the gym today I talked to the woman with the broken phone (turns out Earthlink sent her the wrong hardware) and she was telling us that one of her friends at the gym wouldn&#8217;t talk to her any longer. Turns out they went on a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=675\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Carolyn&#8217;s right. Why do I bother?<\/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-675","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\/675","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=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}