{"id":22625,"date":"2010-08-20T13:33:25","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T21:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22625"},"modified":"2010-08-20T13:35:46","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T21:35:46","slug":"an-advantage-to-being-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22625","title":{"rendered":"An Advantage To Being Single"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a single man, I dream of having a great marriage.<\/p>\n<p>If I were married to someone of my level, my dream would be gone. I&#8217;d be stuck with reality, with the hard work of making a relationship work. I might very well be stuck in a bad marriage spiraling downhill.<\/p>\n<p>By staying single, one has hope. When you get married, I suspect you lose a lot of hope.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been in relationships where I felt stuck and disappointed. There was no longer any sexual attraction. The whole thing seemed pointless. <\/p>\n<p>I guess I live in fantasyland much of the time.<\/p>\n<p>As I click around on frumster.com and send icebreakers, I feel great anxiety. I&#8217;m finding people struggling like me. I&#8217;m sure they too have hopes of a great marriage. I&#8217;m sure they want to be taken out of their humdrum lives and to a higher plane. <\/p>\n<p>On frumster, I confront reality. On other websites, I can dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a single man, I dream of having a great marriage. If I were married to someone of my level, my dream would be gone. I&#8217;d be stuck with reality, with the hard work of making a relationship work. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22625\">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":[21],"tags":[30006,23370,23371,20330,23372],"class_list":["post-22625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-marriage","tag-relationship-work","tag-sexual-attraction","tag-single-man","tag-single-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22625","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=22625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22627,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22625\/revisions\/22627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}