{"id":55937,"date":"2014-07-16T18:17:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T02:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55937"},"modified":"2014-07-16T18:20:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T02:20:59","slug":"tinder-is-my-favorite-dating-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55937","title":{"rendered":"Tinder Is My Favorite Dating App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To separate the wheat from the chaff on Tinder, my first question is always, &#8220;Have you read any good books lately?&#8221; So far I&#8217;ve had four interesting online conversations but no dates. I&#8217;m searching 18-40yo within ten miles.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not asking that question because I want to discuss books with girls. I ask the question to winnow people out. Those who aren&#8217;t interested in the question are not ones I can spend time with because they bore me.<\/p>\n<p>I have never been with a woman who did not enjoy reading books. 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