{"id":5985,"date":"2012-12-14T17:30:38","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T22:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=5985"},"modified":"2012-12-14T22:39:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T03:39:28","slug":"retrobruxist-friday-121412","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/14\/retrobruxist-friday-121412\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrobruxist Friday 12\/14\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, my problems seem so small compared to those of the parents of 20 kindergarteners in Newtown, Connecticut. I thought about suspending Retrobruxist Friday for the day, but in case you need a distraction (it’s a coping skill — for real, I learned it in group therapy) from your grief\/confusion\/anger\/what-have-you, I offer you a few of my silly blog posts.<\/p>\n

Three years<\/strong> have passed, and I’m dealing with the same\u00a0shallow and\/or generic messages<\/a>\u00a0from online dating prospects. Look, here’s one from today:<\/p>\n

\"I<\/a>
I bet you ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS you didn’t enjoy reading my profile because, in order to enjoy reading it, you’d have had to read it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I wrote a story in five episodes<\/a> two years<\/strong> ago. It spawned the Call Me Crazy category on the blog because, in it, I got kinda crazy about being crazy.<\/p>\n

A year<\/strong> ago, I had writer’s block<\/a>. History repeats itself — drought this week. Maybe the words will come rushing out with my menses. (Hark, the sound of people deleting Avid Bruxist from their RSS feeds!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, my problems seem so small compared to those of the parents of 20 kindergarteners in Newtown, Connecticut. I thought about suspending Retrobruxist Friday for the day, but in case you need a distraction (it’s a coping skill — for real, I learned it in group therapy) from your grief\/confusion\/anger\/what-have-you, I offer you a few … Continue reading Retrobruxist Friday 12\/14\/12<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-call-me-crazy","category-dating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985","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=5985"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5995,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985\/revisions\/5995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}