{"id":20509,"date":"2010-06-27T08:15:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T16:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=20509"},"modified":"2010-06-27T08:15:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T16:15:28","slug":"marry-him-the-case-for-settling-for-mr-good-enough-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=20509","title":{"rendered":"Marry Him: The Case For Settling For Mr Good Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lorigottlieb.com\">I could not put down this new book from author Lori Gottlieb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I read it straight through Shabbos afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>What made it particularly appealing is revenge. <\/p>\n<p>As a guy, I have to go through life making the first move on a girl, asking a girl out, leaning in to kiss her for the first time, and then trying to develop a relationship.<\/p>\n<p>This becomes wearing. Rejection wears one down. I&#8217;ve dated at least two dozen women in my life who I would&#8217;ve married, but none of them wanted to marry me.<\/p>\n<p>Now I see some of them and they&#8217;ve hit the wall. They&#8217;re not married. They&#8217;re not cute. They&#8217;re bitter. And I&#8217;m glad. I&#8217;m glad to see the destruction of the haughty. I&#8217;m glad to see the humbling of all these chicks who thought they were so much better than me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m 44. I have more choices now than ever. I date 18-year olds. I date 40-year olds. The world is my oyster. <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2944\">Vengeance is mine, says the Count of Pico-Robertson.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I could not put down this new book from author Lori Gottlieb. I read it straight through Shabbos afternoon. What made it particularly appealing is revenge. As a guy, I have to go through life making the first move on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=20509\">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":[210,606,619,21],"tags":[22693,16739,29995,22692,22691],"class_list":["post-20509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating","category-lori-gottlieb","category-marriage","category-personal","tag-18-year-olds","tag-dozen-women","tag-lori-gottlieb","tag-women-in-my-life","tag-world-is-my-oyster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20509","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=20509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20510,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20509\/revisions\/20510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}