{"id":2044,"date":"2003-12-18T15:29:04","date_gmt":"2003-12-19T07:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/18\/blogdating\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T14:54:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T22:54:32","slug":"blogdating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/18\/blogdating\/","title":{"rendered":"BlogDating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wandering randomly through the <a href=\"http:\/\/seablogs.hellbent.org\/\" title=\"Seattle Weblogs\">Seattle Weblogs Portal<\/a>, I stumbled across a <a href=\"http:\/\/jacquelinepassey.blogs.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/dating_in_the_i.html\" title=\"Dating in the Internet Age\">wonderful little story<\/a>. A girl and guy meet, and as they don&#8217;t live terribly close together, rather than exchanging phone numbers, they exchange blog addresses. Later on, she has some time to kill&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  From reading his blog, I&#8217;ve learned my nice guy is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/xenikos\/2002\/08\/16\/\">heavy drinking<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/xenikos\/31606.html\">angsty<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/xenikos\/2002\/08\/31\/\">insecure<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/xenikos\/33619.html\">agoraphobic<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/xenikos\/33535.html\">cross-dressing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/xenikos\/25541.html\">DJ<\/a> who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/xenikos\/28470.html\">watches too much television<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/xenikos\/2002\/08\/22\/\">writes poetry<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/xenikos\/2002\/08\/26\/\">wants to be a philosophy professor<\/a> when he grows up. :) But he is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/xenikos\/1635.html\">funny<\/a>, and he did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/xenikos\/23560.html\">quit smoking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  Reading through that took about as long as your typical first date, but I learned a lot more than I would on the typical first date, during which everyone is on their best behavior. Much more efficient.<\/p>\n<p>  I wonder what sort of conclusions he&#8217;s currently drawing about me. :)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I like her sense of humor &#8212; and the gentleman in question responded quite well in her comments, too.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit, though, I do think that my favorite part of the whole post may be the comment likening exchanging blog addresses to &#8220;intellectually sleeping with one another on the first date.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nothing wrong with a little mental nookie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing wrong with a little mental nookie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[599],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}