{"id":1668,"date":"2007-09-14T10:48:53","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T15:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2007-09-14T16:36:55","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T21:36:55","slug":"my-public-persona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=1668","title":{"rendered":"My public persona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend says why do you listen to what all these people tell you? I accept dating advice from women who are chronically single. And I say, I invite it by being a public person. If I kept all my life questions to myself then no one would know what buttons to push with me &#8211; but instead I&#8217;m like a whack a mole, you might not know what hole or issue is going to pop up and pop my head out, but you can damn sure count on getting a whack in if you listen long enough. <\/p>\n<p>The truth about dating, or my experience is this, everyone has a strategy and here&#8217;s mine &#8211; you see something you like, go for the gusto. Gomez says if a girl does something, and the guy doesn&#8217;t like it, then he&#8217;s not into her. But the girl could do the same thing and another guy likes it, and it&#8217;s not cause this guy necessarily likes &#8220;it&#8221;, it&#8217;s that he likes &#8220;her.&#8221; I buy that.<\/p>\n<p>I also buy that people have unwritten expectations that they heap onto others. My largest expectation is I expect you to be true to your feelings &#8211; don&#8217;t come on like a house on fire and then evaporate like smoke &#8211; that ain&#8217;t right. Although rumor has it this shit goes down all the time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend says why do you listen to what all these people tell you? I accept dating advice from women who are chronically single. And I say, I invite it by being a public person. If I kept all my life questions to myself then no one would know what buttons to push with me &#8211; but instead I&#8217;m like a whack a mole, you might not know what hole or issue is going to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-qU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}