{"id":1848,"date":"2015-05-29T04:16:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T20:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=1848"},"modified":"2015-05-29T04:16:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T20:16:18","slug":"second-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2015\/05\/29\/second-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let me tell you about being single again and dating.<\/p>\n<p>I meet remarkable women.<\/p>\n<p>Non-smokers who chain smoke; social drinkers being borderline alcoholics.<\/p>\n<p>When we talk on the phone, without exception, they\u2019re all size 10-12. We arrange to meet.<\/p>\n<p>The old joke goes, the women in our town are size 24, size 26, size 28, and then there are the big fat ones!<\/p>\n<p>Seems to me it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p>They get offended when I say, \u201cYou deceived me,\u201d and ask why I say so on our first date. I mean, why would anyone wait til the second date to speak up?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarryO_Tweet\" target=\"_blank\">Barry O&#8217;Farrell<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barry is an actor living in Brisbane, Australia. Other stories by Barry have appeared in Cyclamens &#038; Swords, 50-Word Stories, and of course here at A Story In 100 Words.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me tell you about being single again and dating. I meet remarkable women. Non-smokers who chain smoke; social drinkers being borderline alcoholics. When we talk on the phone, without exception, they\u2019re all size 10-12. We arrange to meet. The old joke goes, the women in our town are size 24, size 26, size 28, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3616,2978,3614,3617,3615,1094,41,3312,3613,223,2522],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-alcoholics","tag-barry-ofarrell","tag-dating","tag-deception","tag-drinking","tag-fat","tag-guest-contributor","tag-phone","tag-single","tag-smoking","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1849,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions\/1849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}