{"id":3022,"date":"2008-05-21T17:50:51","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T01:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3022"},"modified":"2008-05-21T18:18:45","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T02:18:45","slug":"the-other-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3022","title":{"rendered":"The Other Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Woman, why do you keep putting garlic in everything?&quot; I bellow. &quot;You don&#8217;t want me to be attractive to other women.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Why do you want to be attractive to other women?&quot; she says.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I need the affirmation.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I want you to go back on your lithium. I&#8217;d rather you be chubby and jolly.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Woman, stop trying to make me fat and smelly.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Here, let me put on a little bit of nice music.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Stop with the sexy music! Spit out your sexy gum! I just want to cuddle. No funny business. I&#8217;m not used to being the other woman. I don&#8217;t like it. You&#8217;re being ridiculous. Everybody&#8217;s laughing at you.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Don&#8217;t bother me woman!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Sheesh, what&#8217;s with monotheism and monogamy? G-d doesn&#8217;t want us to have other gods, not even for a bit of fun on the weekends. We&#8217;re not supposed to go whoring, not even when we need a little pick-me-up. We&#8217;re not to have graven images and even wholesome hardcore American pornography is right out.<\/p>\n<p>One God means one wife and one universal moral code.<\/p>\n<p>I learned in my secular studies that poets have their own moral code. Our souls are so sensitive, our insights so keen, that we can&#8217;t be constrained by the conventional morality.<\/p>\n<p>So do poets and bloggers get their own Torah? A more streamlined version to leave us with more time for our important work?<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Woman, why do you keep putting garlic in everything?&quot; I bellow. &quot;You don&#8217;t want me to be attractive to other women.&quot; &quot;Why do you want to be attractive to other women?&quot; she says. &quot;I need the affirmation.&quot; &quot;I want you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3022\">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":[8117,8113,3707,8120,2659,8118,8122,8119,6978,4631,8016,8127,8126,8124,8115,8125,8128,8121,8114,8123,8116,29981],"class_list":["post-3022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-affirmation","tag-being-the-other-woman","tag-bit-of-fun","tag-conventional-morality","tag-funny-business","tag-garlic","tag-graven-images","tag-gum","tag-lithium","tag-little-bit","tag-mitzvot","tag-monogamy","tag-monotheism","tag-moral-code","tag-nice-music","tag-one-god","tag-poets","tag-secular-studies","tag-sexy-music","tag-streamlined-version","tag-teenage-girl","tag-torah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022","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=3022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}