{"id":44193,"date":"2014-05-21T15:16:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T15:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/abc_nightline_man_on_demand_rent-a-gent_allows_women_to_hire_hunks_for_date\/"},"modified":"2014-05-21T15:16:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T15:16:12","slug":"abc_nightline_man_on_demand_rent-a-gent_allows_women_to_hire_hunks_for_date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44193","title":{"rendered":"(ABC Nightline) Man on Demand: Rent-A-Gent Allows Women to Hire Hunks for Dates, Chores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marina has it all. She has the job, she has the looks, and, depending on her mood, she has her choice of Frankie the acrobatic dancer, Harrison the revolutionary or Eric the actor.<\/p>\n<p>Marina is using a service called Rent-A-Gent. Starting at $200 an hour, users can pick from a list of handsome, intelligent men listed on the service\u2019s website to be their companion and either book online or call to reserve a \u201cgent.\u201d\u009d The men can serve as a date to an event, cook meals or even repair a sink.<\/p>\n<p>But what they are not allowed to do is hook-up &#8212; no kissing, and definitely no sex, while on the job.<\/p>\n<p>Marina ended up choosing Eric, whose Rent-A-Gent profile described him as someone who \u201cloves the outdoors, culture and also active and social causes,\u201d\u009d for a rock-climbing date &#8212; something she had never done before but always wanted to try.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Lifestyle\/man-demand-rent-gent-women-hire-hunks-dates\/story?id=23801815\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marina has it all. She has the job, she has the looks, and, depending on her mood, she has her choice of Frankie the acrobatic dancer, Harrison the revolutionary or Eric the actor. Marina is using a service called Rent-A-Gent.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44193\">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":[39,40,175,582,589,149,168,125,593,34,126,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-men","category-personal-finance","category-theology","category-women","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44193","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=44193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}