{"id":15842,"date":"2010-01-09T22:04:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T06:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=15842"},"modified":"2010-01-09T22:12:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T06:12:07","slug":"boring-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=15842","title":{"rendered":"Boring Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his book on happiness, Dennis Prager has a page on boring dates.<\/p>\n<p>On his radio show Jan. 7, 2010, Dennis said: &#8220;I bore easily. One of the reasons I am interesting is that I bore easily. I would bore me if I weren&#8217;t interesting. I have the attention-span of a seven-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I went on many dates prior to being married and a certain number were boring. I wrote about that. It was classic Prager taking lemons and making lemonade. I started to analyze why do I find this person boring? <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I found there were two things that were universal about boring people. A. They had no passion. Passionless people are not interesting. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;B. Boring people speak about themselves the whole time. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never like to talk about myself outside of radio and public speeches&#8230; I&#8217;m tired of hearing me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his book on happiness, Dennis Prager has a page on boring dates. On his radio show Jan. 7, 2010, Dennis said: &#8220;I bore easily. One of the reasons I am interesting is that I bore easily. I would bore &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=15842\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating","category-dennis-prager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}