{"id":8925,"date":"2009-05-11T21:32:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T05:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8925"},"modified":"2009-05-11T21:34:36","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T05:34:36","slug":"lipstick-muslim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8925","title":{"rendered":"Lipstick Muslim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lipstickmuslim.com\/\">She writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I had never before lived that far from my childhood home in Alexandria, Virginia and now I was about to move cross country. I spent years trying to get my father&rsquo;s blessings to move to Los Angeles so that I could pursue my comedy writing dreams, and eventually I gave up and entered into an arranged marriage. Deranged, more like &ndash; when it eventually ended my father felt so guilty about the whole thing that he finally broke down and gave me his blessings. But now I was experiencing my own break down&hellip; Breathe in. Breathe out.<\/p>\n<p>I walk down the aisle. I can not believe what I encounter next. A hot man seated next to my passenger seat. I was readying myself for a middle-aged one with bad breath. What a nice surprise! He is tall, white and handsome. Not what I typically go for. But my divorce with Faisal had left me open to people outside of my culture.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She writes: I had never before lived that far from my childhood home in Alexandria, Virginia and now I was about to move cross country. I spent years trying to get my father&rsquo;s blessings to move to Los Angeles so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8925\">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":[139],"tags":[17563,17567,17565,17566,17564,15192],"class_list":["post-8925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","tag-alexandria-virginia","tag-bad-breath","tag-childhood-home","tag-hot-man","tag-nice-surprise","tag-passenger-seat"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8925","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=8925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8926,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8925\/revisions\/8926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}