{"id":3453,"date":"2008-07-14T14:52:01","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T22:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3453"},"modified":"2008-07-14T16:43:13","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T00:43:13","slug":"driving-loving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3453","title":{"rendered":"Driving &#038; Loving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m brutal and impatient.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how I manage to keep my license.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m way to quick to toot my horn and push my way to where I wanna go.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a menace.<\/p>\n<p>I should be illegal.<\/p>\n<p>On rare occasions, I suppress my brutal urges.<\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;m first dating a girl, I&#8217;m nice.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes I can change during the course of one date.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point &#8212; 2002.<\/p>\n<p>We met at Stu and Lew&#8217;s Christmas party.<\/p>\n<p>She was an executive.<\/p>\n<p>I love powerful women.<\/p>\n<p>We had our first date at the Magic Carpet on Pico Blvd.<\/p>\n<p>She wasn&#8217;t as concerned about my past writing on &#8212;- but that I was too religious for her.<\/p>\n<p>I was Orthodox and she was Conservative.<\/p>\n<p>Lunch went well enough for us to go out again.<\/p>\n<p>We went to a movie in Santa Monica.<\/p>\n<p>On the drive there, I was very careful.<\/p>\n<p>Then I got us into an argument on abortion.<\/p>\n<p>She thought it should be legal and guilt-free. I was more gloomy.<\/p>\n<p>We watched the movie.<\/p>\n<p>I drove back brutally.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I can see you&#8217;re no longer trying to impress me,&quot; she noted as I raced through a yellow light and smacked into a few bumps.<\/p>\n<p>Damn, women are so intuitive.<\/p>\n<p>How do they pick up on these things? How can they tell I no longer care so much?<\/p>\n<p>If I can ever learn to fake caring, I&#8217;ll be the complete loving package.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m brutal and impatient. I don&#8217;t know how I manage to keep my license. I&#8217;m way to quick to toot my horn and push my way to where I wanna go. I&#8217;m a menace. I should be illegal. On rare &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3453\">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],"tags":[2825,1017,10339,10338,30177,10337],"class_list":["post-3453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating","tag-magic-carpet","tag-pico-blvd","tag-powerful-women","tag-rare-occasions","tag-santa-monica","tag-stu-and-lew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453","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=3453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}