{"id":721,"date":"2007-08-12T14:57:38","date_gmt":"2007-08-12T21:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=721"},"modified":"2007-12-08T15:16:11","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T22:04:11","slug":"reasons-not-to-have-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=721","title":{"rendered":"Reasons Not To Have Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/12\/reasons-for-saying-no\/\">John Tierney writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Some of the common reasons were moral and religious qualms, fear of contracting a disease, lack of interest in the other person. A couple of the uncommon ones:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;Because if I want to feel badly about myself for being an overweight, out of shape single mom, I can just call my mother (and keep my clothes on too!).&rdquo; (Posted by <a href=\"http:\/\/tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/30\/the-238th-reason-for-having-sex-or-any-reason-for-saying-no\/#comment-20035\">Smartypants<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The guy kept leaping out of a coffee shop I passed on the way to work playing a guitar and singing Portugese love songs.&rdquo; (Posted by <a href=\"http:\/\/tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/30\/the-238th-reason-for-having-sex-or-any-reason-for-saying-no\/#comment-21129\">Anon<\/a>, who also reported saying no after hearing one of the worst come-on lines in history: &ldquo;The guy told me I looked just like his exgirlfriend.&rdquo;)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My favorite combo was from <a href=\"http:\/\/tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/30\/the-238th-reason-for-having-sex-or-any-reason-for-saying-no\/#comment-19952\">Michelle<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;Reason I didn&rsquo;t want to: Because he was an idiot.<br \/>\nReason I did: Because I am an idiot.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Tierney writes: Some of the common reasons were moral and religious qualms, fear of contracting a disease, lack of interest in the other person. A couple of the uncommon ones: &ldquo;Because if I want to feel badly about myself &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=721\">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":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","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=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}