{"id":820,"date":"2006-03-27T22:16:25","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T06:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=820"},"modified":"2006-03-27T22:16:26","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T06:16:26","slug":"stupid-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=820","title":{"rendered":"Stupid man."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a man, I am often am manipulated by women. (Bear with me here, even if it isn&#8217;t true, it makes for a better story.) I end up going out when I don&#8217;t want to and having no fun. I help my ex move into a house with her new boyfriend. I helped my friend Sun move a huge and heavy hide-a-bed. And my sister makes me do even stupider things like pick up dog poop.<\/p>\n<p>Well, today I got two frantic phone calls from a woman who was having networking problems. She told me to call her as soon as I got home. Twice. I got home, wolfed down my dinner, and called her. Then I waited. And waited. And waited. And then watched <i>24<\/i> and now here I am. Time to hit the hay. If things go the way they usually go with this woman, she&#8217;ll have fixed things on her own. She just likes to panic.<\/p>\n<p>Well, tomorrow Dave is supposed to measure me. I dunno. Who wants to know how much larger his belly is than his chest? Heh. Well, we&#8217;ll see. This is stage one of &#8220;putting on the 10 pounds.&#8221; If I&#8217;m lucky, it won&#8217;t all be all on my keister, though the padding could help me in my hard job of sitting around at Megacorp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a man, I am often am manipulated by women. (Bear with me here, even if it isn&#8217;t true, it makes for a better story.) I end up going out when I don&#8217;t want to and having no fun. I help my ex move into a house with her new boyfriend. I helped my friend Sun move a huge and heavy hide-a-bed. And my sister makes me do even stupider things like pick up dog poop. Well, today I got two frantic phone calls from a woman who was having networking problems. She told me to call her as soon as I got home. Twice. I got home, wolfed down &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=820\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stupid man.<\/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-820","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\/820","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=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}