{"id":461,"date":"2006-12-22T10:26:39","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T17:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2006\/12\/22\/um-thanks\/"},"modified":"2006-12-22T10:28:29","modified_gmt":"2006-12-22T17:28:29","slug":"um-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2006\/12\/22\/um-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Um, Thanks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T:\u00a0 So my new partner&#8217;s dating this 22 year old.<\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0 Really?\u00a0 How old is he?<\/p>\n<p>T:\u00a0 30.<\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0 Wow, I can&#8217;t even relate to 22 year olds anymore.\u00a0 I wonder why men are attracted to\u00a0younger women?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>T:\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure I have no idea.<\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0 No, seriously.\u00a0 I know\u00a0they&#8217;re pretty to look at and all, but don&#8217;t you want someone you can at least talk to?\u00a0 I just don&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;d have that much in common with\u00a0a 22 year\u00a0old.\u00a0 I&#8217;m\u00a0in such a different place in life right now than I was then.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>T:\u00a0 Yes, well, I told him I didn&#8217;t know why he would want to date a young, attractive woman when he could . . . [<em>trailing off, look of panic starting to form in his eyes<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0 [<em>Laughing<\/em>]\u00a0 Gee, I&#8217;d love to see where that compliment was going.<\/p>\n<p>T:\u00a0 Um, you&#8217;re beautiful and I love you?<\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0 Yeah, maybe it&#8217;s best we just leave it at that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>T:\u00a0 Just dodged the bullet there, didn&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0 Only cause it&#8217;s the holidays Hon, only cause it&#8217;s the holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T:\u00a0 So my new partner&#8217;s dating this 22 year old. Me:\u00a0 Really?\u00a0 How old is he? T:\u00a0 30. Me:\u00a0 Wow, I can&#8217;t even relate to 22 year olds anymore.\u00a0 I wonder why men are attracted to\u00a0younger women?\u00a0 T:\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure I have no idea. Me:\u00a0 No, seriously.\u00a0 I know\u00a0they&#8217;re pretty to look at and all, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}