{"id":64632,"date":"2015-02-27T16:18:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T00:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=64632"},"modified":"2023-09-14T04:02:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T12:02:24","slug":"the-despair-that-grows-with-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=64632","title":{"rendered":"The Despair That Grows With Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bachelor tells me: &#8220;I live in the big city, and yet socialize less and less. There&#8217;s a certain despair that grows as you stay single and age. I see it in your posts as well. I sometimes think the answer is to marry an ugly fat girl but I can&#8217;t do that like I did before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Luke: Oh yeah. I love to blog. I just never run out of topics. I can listen to a shiur (Torah talk) and boom! Not sure if I am making recruits, but I am certainly gathering like-minded souls.<\/p>\n<p>Every day I do some mitzvahs, I do something for my people, I write some blogs, and I try to improve in some way. I just love speaking my mind. Nobody even bothers to try to intimidate me these days. Maybe I have low testosterone, but I rarely get horny these days, except to blog.<\/p>\n<p>Bachelor: &#8220;At some point, a man realizes that the only women who might be interested in him whom he might find attractive at least physically are the mentally ill. And that is a grim day.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bachelor tells me: &#8220;I live in the big city, and yet socialize less and less. There&#8217;s a certain despair that grows as you stay single and age. I see it in your posts as well. I sometimes think the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=64632\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64632","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=64632"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151874,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64632\/revisions\/151874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}