{"id":8966,"date":"2009-05-15T14:19:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T22:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8966"},"modified":"2009-05-15T14:19:14","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T22:19:14","slug":"romantic-gestures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8966","title":{"rendered":"Romantic Gestures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jane writes: &quot;What are your thoughts on dating literary fans? Believe it or not, I have a couple. They are attractive and they come over and thumb through my writing, read it out loud and tell me I&#8217;m amazing. I&#8217;m wondering&#8230;.why not exclusively date fans instead of chasing after these &quot;unavailable&quot; men. Why pass up being adored for some un conceivable challenge? Your thoughts?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Would you refuse a romantic gesture if you didn&#8217;t fancy the taste of something? The person giving it to you is someone you are dating.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Luke: If I loved the person less than I hated the food, I&#8217;d refuse.<\/p>\n<p>Jane writes: Yeah, I have a canoli situation. Pretty funny&#8230; I&rsquo;m officially turned off and may never talk to this guy again, over a canoli refusal. He&#8217;s obviously not a fan! And this is what you deal with with you date non-fans.<\/p>\n<p>Luke: Fans become just as difficult because no &quot;fan&quot; you date is going to remain a fan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane writes: &quot;What are your thoughts on dating literary fans? Believe it or not, I have a couple. They are attractive and they come over and thumb through my writing, read it out loud and tell me I&#8217;m amazing. I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8966\">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":[210],"tags":[17649,17648,17647,17650],"class_list":["post-8966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating","tag-literary-fans","tag-romantic-gesture","tag-romantic-gestures","tag-thumb"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966","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=8966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8967,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966\/revisions\/8967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}