{"id":5887,"date":"2012-12-07T10:15:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T15:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=5887"},"modified":"2012-12-07T10:15:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T15:15:56","slug":"retrobruxist-friday-12712","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/07\/retrobruxist-friday-12712\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrobruxist Friday 12\/7\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m meeting <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/06\/i-entertain-myself-by-jerking-around-men\/\">Mr. One Big Duck<\/a> next week. Like I said, it&#8217;s (with 95% certainty)\u00a0a no-go, but I just have to. His message was\/profile is so great, not to mention\u00a0he&#8217;s <em>real easy on the eyes<\/em>\u00a0&#8212; I just want to assure myself that prospects like him actually exist.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, there&#8217;s that goddamn 5% chance that he&#8217;ll be so fantastic that I&#8217;ll overlook the duck.<\/p>\n<p>Look at me, breaking my Don&#8217;t Write About the Good Ones policy. But\u00a0it&#8217;s minimal and nebulous\u00a0so it&#8217;s OK, right?<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of OKCupid, I got fed up with it <strong>three years ago<\/strong> and posted <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/05\/make-me-a-match\/\">a profile on Match<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>**********<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two years ago<\/strong>, I <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/05\/its-so-bright-in-here\/\">over-indulged<\/a> and wondered whether it was worth it. This continues to be a struggle. Nowadays I participate in a weekly event I like to call Gluten Sunday because Sunday means brunch, and you can tell me\u00a0that an omelet or other eggy dish\u00a0will do just as well but those are lies &#8212; LIES &#8212; because brunch means French toast and\/or biscuits and\/or pancakes and\/or waffles. And I&#8217;m always groggy after, but it&#8217;s not so bad. As long as I can lay off the gluten the rest of the week. Which continues to be a struggle.<\/p>\n<p>**********<\/p>\n<p>Probably going to get somebody a <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/06\/flock-of-chicks\/\">flock of chicks<\/a> again like I did\u00a0<strong>a year ago<\/strong> but also a <a href=\"http:\/\/gifts.rescue.org\/product\/education\/year-school?webSyncID=d0e3666d-dba0-a22c-5dd3-048822a546ad&amp;sessionGUID=ec7172d6-7112-429a-e17e-a085a7c9848a\">year of school<\/a>. YEAR OF SCHOOL.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Retrobruxist Friday, y&#8217;all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m meeting Mr. One Big Duck next week. Like I said, it&#8217;s (with 95% certainty)\u00a0a no-go, but I just have to. His message was\/profile is so great, not to mention\u00a0he&#8217;s real easy on the eyes\u00a0&#8212; I just want to assure myself that prospects like him actually exist. Plus, there&#8217;s that goddamn 5% chance that he&#8217;ll &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/07\/retrobruxist-friday-12712\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Retrobruxist Friday 12\/7\/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":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating","category-gluten-freek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887","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=5887"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5944,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887\/revisions\/5944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}