{"id":5750,"date":"2012-11-16T13:24:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T18:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=5750"},"modified":"2012-11-16T13:24:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T18:24:23","slug":"retrobruxist-friday-111612","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/16\/retrobruxist-friday-111612\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrobruxist Friday 11\/16\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Redford was just a baby <strong>three years ago<\/strong>, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/13\/older-sister-younger-brother\/\">lil&#8217; goof-bucket<\/a>. He&#8217;s still a goof-bucket, but giant, and an affection bully, busting into your embrace of another dog or another person &#8217;cause what if your love runs out before you get to him? Man, I love that boy.<\/p>\n<p>Some of you have become <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/02\/go-be-wonderful\/\">Dan NJ<\/a> fans recently. I&#8217;ve been president of his fan club for a long time. <strong>Two years ago<\/strong>, I wrote about some advice he had given me back when we were roomies in Astoria, Queens. Excellent as the advice was, I extrapolated poorly from it and decided I needed to maintain\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/14\/a-dog-shaped-space\/\">a dog-shaped space<\/a> in my house.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meh.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, if you set them end to end, you can fit so many dogs into 747 square feet, right?\u00a0(Yes, this means I&#8217;ll probably foster again soon. It&#8217;s seemed like there&#8217;s one too few pit bulls in my house lately.)<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: There remains\u00a0a man(or woman!)-shaped space in my bed, for which I&#8217;m still recruiting. However, I don&#8217;t want to date to do it. I don&#8217;t want to email or evaluate\u00a0prospects. I don&#8217;t want to set up dates, go on dates, or follow up after dates. I don&#8217;t want any of that. Somebody just come over and get in my bed, for Christ&#8217;s sake.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes\u00a0I like to think I&#8217;m old. About five years ago when I got\u00a0my first\u00a0gray pube, I figured life was pretty much in the wrapping-up stage. And<strong>\u00a0a year ago<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/12\/feeling-old\/\">meeting a cute boy ten years my junior<\/a> made me start counting my liver spots.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the fact is, saying it&#8217;s too late, I&#8217;m too old, is a racket I&#8217;ve been running since\u00a0I was, like, 12.\u00a0I think that&#8217;s when I decided I was too old to learn to ski.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not too late, really for anything. <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/08\/dear-grandma\/\">My grandma<\/a> started windsurfing when she was 58.<\/p>\n<p>And\u00a0I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/14\/not-actually-old\/\">not actually old<\/a>. If I start running that line of bullshit again, you have permission to tell me to STFU.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Retrobruxist Friday, y&#8217;all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redford was just a baby three years ago, and a lil&#8217; goof-bucket. He&#8217;s still a goof-bucket, but giant, and an affection bully, busting into your embrace of another dog or another person &#8217;cause what if your love runs out before you get to him? Man, I love that boy. Some of you have become Dan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/16\/retrobruxist-friday-111612\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Retrobruxist Friday 11\/16\/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":[4,5,8],"tags":[96,37,97],"class_list":["post-5750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animules","category-dating","category-fambly","tag-dan-nj","tag-dogs","tag-getting-old"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750","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=5750"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5757,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions\/5757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}