{"id":5643,"date":"2012-11-02T10:16:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T14:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=5643"},"modified":"2012-11-02T15:59:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T19:59:24","slug":"retrobruxist-friday-11212","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/02\/retrobruxist-friday-11212\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrobruxist Friday 11\/2\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three years ago<\/strong>, I responded<\/a> to the negging incident<\/a>. Awwwww, I was such an online-dating newbie, with my adorable disappointment in dudes’ profiles and emails. Now I’m all jaded and cranky and resigned to spinsterhood.<\/p>\n

Progress.<\/p>\n

My battle with acne<\/a> started decades back. I wrote about it two years ago<\/strong>. I do eat way less sugar nowadays, but I also use<\/p>\n

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OXY face wash.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My sister looked at the bottle recently and was like, “That bottle…”<\/p>\n

And I said, “Looks like it’ll punch your zits in the face?”<\/p>\n

“Yes, that’s it,” she said.<\/p>\n

It does punch my zits in the face, for the most part. The dermatologist prescribed Retin-A too, and so far, when I apply only a pea-sized amount, rather than the\u00a0circus<\/em> peanut<\/em>-sized amount I used to apply as a teen, it doesn’t seem to make my face<\/p>\n

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do this<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

in the sun.<\/p>\n

I was just<\/em> <\/em>thinking about the genesis a year ago<\/strong> of the great martial art abdo-shindo<\/a> because I seem to have given myself some abdo this week. There’s something sexy about sore abs. Makes you feel like they’re all hard and tight and ripply.<\/p>\n

Sore abs are liars.<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, I already gave you the Embarrassing Photo of the Week, but I’m nothing if not generous, so here you go:<\/p>\n

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Look at that six-pack.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Happy Retrobruxist Friday, y’all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three years ago, I responded to the negging incident. Awwwww, I was such an online-dating newbie, with my adorable disappointment in dudes’ profiles and emails. Now I’m all jaded and cranky and resigned to spinsterhood. Progress. My battle with acne started decades back. I wrote about it two years ago. I do eat way less … Continue reading Retrobruxist Friday 11\/2\/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":[5,20,12],"tags":[84,33,36,83],"class_list":["post-5643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating","category-first-world-problems","category-liftin-heavy-objects-over-ma-head","tag-acne","tag-crossfit","tag-dating-2","tag-embarrassing-photo-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643","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=5643"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5656,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions\/5656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}