{"id":28938,"date":"2011-10-25T02:27:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T02:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/from_the_do_not_take_yourself_too_seriously_department_dave_barry_on_men_wo\/"},"modified":"2011-10-25T02:27:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T02:27:47","slug":"from_the_do_not_take_yourself_too_seriously_department_dave_barry_on_men_wo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28938","title":{"rendered":"From the Do Not Take Yourself too Seriously Department: Dave Barry on Men, Women, and Pick Up Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My point here is that, in matters of the heart, males have the brains of a walnut. No, wait! That is not my point. My point is that perhaps you women could cut us males a little bit of slack in the move-making process, because we are under a lot of stress. I vividly remember when I was in 10th grade, and I wanted to call a girl named Patty and ask her to a dance, and before I picked up the phone, I spent maybe 28 hours rehearsing exactly what I was going to say. So when I actually made the call, I was pretty smooth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hello, Dance?&#8221; I said. &#8220;This is Patty. Do you want to go to the Dave with me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2011\/10\/23\/2469613\/pick-up-lines-will-save-the-world.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My point here is that, in matters of the heart, males have the brains of a walnut. No, wait! That is not my point. My point is that perhaps you women could cut us males a little bit of slack<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28938\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,49,189,194,125,129,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-general-interest","category-animals","category-humor-trivia","category-men","category-psychology","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}