{"id":7204,"date":"2013-06-17T08:20:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T12:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=7204"},"modified":"2013-06-17T08:20:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T12:20:39","slug":"and-you-act-like-one-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/17\/and-you-act-like-one-too\/","title":{"rendered":"And You Act Like One Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last summer, I posted on Facebook something like, “When I’m mowing the lawn, why do the guys in my neighborhood think that I’m putting on some sort of show<\/em> for them?”<\/p>\n

A guy-friend later told me it “sounded like a bit<\/em> of a humble-brag” to him, and as soon as he said that—of course it did. But that’s not at all what I meant.<\/p>\n

I don’t mow the lawn in a bikini. I’m usually in my workout clothes, post-WOD, because what the hell, I’m already stinky—let’s do this thing. So I’m out there, dripping sweat, hair disheveled, wrestling with my gas-powered cheapo<\/a>. It’s not sexy. It’s not attractive. It’s not graceful, or even out of the ordinary (this\u00a0is<\/em> 2013, right?—women do all kinds of crazy things, like work outside the home and stuff, right?). What I’m saying is I can’t imagine it’s nice or interesting in any way to watch.<\/p>\n

And yet.<\/p>\n

They hang their heads out their windows. They slow down. They stare. I’m some kind of zoo animal.<\/p>\n

Yesterday a dude stopped his car<\/em>\u00a0and gawked at me.<\/p>\n

I gave him my best\u00a0stankface<\/a>, and he shlooped his head back into his car and drove away. But part of me wanted to turn off the mower and pretend to fling poo at him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last summer, I posted on Facebook something like, “When I’m mowing the lawn, why do the guys in my neighborhood think that I’m putting on some sort of show for them?” A guy-friend later told me it “sounded like a bit of a humble-brag” to him, and as soon as he said that—of course it … Continue reading And You Act Like One Too<\/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":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-world-problems","category-the-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7204","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=7204"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7208,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7204\/revisions\/7208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}