{"id":5087,"date":"2012-08-31T15:54:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T19:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=5087"},"modified":"2012-09-06T19:46:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T23:46:00","slug":"retrobruxist-friday-83012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/31\/retrobruxist-friday-83012\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrobruxist Friday 8\/30\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three years ago<\/strong> this week, I wrote the first of several letters to my baby boy, Redford<\/a>. You’re still my baby boy, buddy, even if you weigh 80 pounds!<\/p>\n

I put up a new profile on OKCupid<\/a>\u00a0two years ago<\/strong>. So glad that worked out for me (mwop mwop). By the by, I closed up shop on OKCupid a few weeks ago. I just can’t, y’all. It was not fun. It was the opposite of fun. If-and-when I managed to sort through the mostly terrible prospects, I dreaded every date. I’ll either find that the love of my life is the friend of a friend of a friend or I’ll be a spinster. That’s how it has to go.<\/p>\n

One year ago<\/strong>—yes, this<\/a>, look at this and then reread the paragraph above. I’m going to start looking in the mirror every morning and saying, “You look beautiful and you sound perfect. I’ll tell you this every day.”<\/p>\n

(…Booooooooooo hoooooooo hoo hoo hoo.)<\/p>\n

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Three years ago this week, I wrote the first of several letters to my baby boy, Redford. You’re still my baby boy, buddy, even if you weigh 80 pounds! I put up a new profile on OKCupid\u00a0two years ago. So glad that worked out for me (mwop mwop). By the by, I closed up shop … Continue reading Retrobruxist Friday 8\/30\/12<\/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":[4,13,5,20],"tags":[36,37,39,38],"class_list":["post-5087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animules","category-call-me-crazy","category-dating","category-first-world-problems","tag-dating-2","tag-dogs","tag-okcupid","tag-pit-bulls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5153,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087\/revisions\/5153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}