{"id":3028,"date":"2005-08-09T20:30:43","date_gmt":"2005-08-10T03:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=3028"},"modified":"2005-08-09T20:30:43","modified_gmt":"2005-08-10T03:30:43","slug":"three-many-dating-truisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/09\/three-many-dating-truisms\/","title":{"rendered":"<strike>Three<\/strike> Many Dating Truisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1.  No woman, in the history of courtship, has ever uttered the phrase &#8220;he&#8217;s a really great guy&#8221; and not followed it with the word &#8220;but.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2.  Getting involved with a girl who has stuffed animals in the back window of her car is rarely a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>3.  Unless otherwise specified, the correct time to microwave something is three minutes.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>:  Some readers are asserting that the final one is not, technically speaking, a &#8220;dating&#8221; truism.  And, okay: I&#8217;ll grudgingly cede the point.<\/p>\n<p>In its place, though, here are some other dating truisms from the comments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/saintsandspinners.blogspot.com'>Alkelda<\/a>:  It&#8217;s a terrible lapse in judgement to kiss a guy who thinks making Donald Duck sound effects is cool.<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.theinsideofmylife.com'>theinsider<\/a>: If a guy introduces you to a girl and says, &#8220;We were just good friends,&#8221; they weren&#8217;t. Watch out, they probably still aren&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>Joy:  Never date anyone who&#8217;s &#8216;getting his band together.&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Stephanie:  Never date outside of your political party in an election year.<\/li>\n<li>Erin:  Don&#8217;t ever be the &#8220;other people&#8221; in &#8220;We&#8217;re seeing other people.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. No woman, in the history of courtship, has ever uttered the phrase &#8220;he&#8217;s a really great guy&#8221; and not followed it with the word &#8220;but.&#8221; 2. Getting involved with a girl who has stuffed animals in the back window of her car is rarely a good idea. 3. Unless otherwise specified, the correct time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}