{"id":587,"date":"2007-07-31T20:27:16","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T03:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=587"},"modified":"2007-12-08T16:13:37","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T23:01:37","slug":"homeless-chicks-are-not-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"Homeless Chicks Are Not Hot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All my favorite pick-up joints &#8212; the library, Star Bucks, Pico and Robertson Blvds &#8212; are getting overrun with mentally ill homeless. It&#8217;s not a turn-on for me.<\/p>\n<p>I was in Starbucks this evening and there was a homeless lady there drinking her coffee and getting counseling. She had nice legs and blonde hair but her face was weatherbeaten. I didn&#8217;t feel safe enough to bring her home, and I have low standards.<\/p>\n<p>I support gentrification for Pico-Robertson. If you can&#8217;t stay clean and sane, then move on to where the black people live.<\/p>\n<p>Chaim Amalek writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As satire (if that is what you had intended), this would be funnier if you had said &ldquo;shvartzes&rdquo; instead of &ldquo;black people&rdquo;. The former can be interpreted as hip Jewish self deprecation, whereas the latter sounds mean-spirited and too close to what many really think.<\/p>\n<p>I am soon set to open the Amalek School of Social Satire, for bloggers of all political stripes. For $250, you can not do better.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All my favorite pick-up joints &#8212; the library, Star Bucks, Pico and Robertson Blvds &#8212; are getting overrun with mentally ill homeless. It&#8217;s not a turn-on for me. I was in Starbucks this evening and there was a homeless lady &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=587\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picorobertson"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","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=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}