{"id":11,"date":"2011-01-06T19:31:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T19:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/WPTest\/?p=11"},"modified":"2011-01-06T19:31:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T19:31:40","slug":"test-post-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2011\/01\/06\/test-post-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Test post 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each week, our local newspaper runs a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/lifestyle\/relationships\/articles\/2011\/01\/02\/sketching_out_a_future\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Dinner with Cupid<\/em><\/a> column in their Sunday magazine insert. Folks apply online and the  newspaper selects couples they think might make a good match, sets them  up for a blind dinner-date, and picks up the tab. Afterward, the two are  interviewed and snippets of what they say make up the column. In the  last section of each column \u2013 ominously titled <em>Post-Mortem \u2013 <\/em>each person grades the other A+ to F, and comments on the possibility of a second date.<\/p>\n<p>First, let me say I am so happy to be married 30+ years and to not  have to worry about with whom I\u2019ll be eating dinner or going out. That  said, if I was single, I think the blind date thing would be kind of  cool. Which is why I check it out each week.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the couple, Meg and Alec, seemed to hit it off. She ended  up giving him and \u201cA\u201d and hoping he\u2019d call. He gave her a \u201cB+\u201d and said,  \u201cI had a fun time, for sure, but feel we would be better off as  friends. She is a really friendly and engaging person; however, the  romantic interest did not develop for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That made me think about how, in these days of instant everything, so  many young people have come to expect instant fireworks, instant heat  when they meet the \u201cright\u201d person for them. I think they often confuse  lust with love, letting their hormones rather than their heads make  decisions.<\/p>\n<p>It is entirely possible Alec and Mege are all wrong for each other,  but how in the world can he know that after one dinner-date during which  both enjoyed themselves and she impressed him as being friendly and  engaging?<\/p>\n<p>Alec, I hope you reconsider and give her, and yourself, a few more  chances to really get to know each other. Long-lasting love isn\u2019t about  heat. Heat eventually cools. But friendly and engaging, those are  qualities upon which lifetimes can be built.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each week, our local newspaper runs a Dinner with Cupid column in their Sunday magazine insert. Folks apply online and the newspaper selects couples they think might make a good match, sets them up for a blind dinner-date, and picks up the tab. Afterward, the two are interviewed and snippets of what they say make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}