{"id":134,"date":"2007-10-18T15:58:17","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T22:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?p=134"},"modified":"2007-10-18T15:58:17","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T22:58:17","slug":"clearly-intended-for-someone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Clearly intended for someone else"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n“You are domestically inclined and will be happily married.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After eating lunch yesterday at Bamboo Garden<\/a><\/strong>, I cracked open my fortune cookie. (I don’t eat them\u2014they aren’t vegan, the ingredients include eggs\u2014I just like to read the fortune.)<\/p>\n

I laughed out loud when I read this.<\/p>\n

I am most definitely not “domestically inclined.” Unless that means that I like hanging out at home and\/or napping.<\/p>\n

As for the marriage part\u2014I was married once, briefly, long ago, and the last year or so was very un<\/em>happy. Not surprisingly, it ended in divorce. I have no desire to get married again; between the failed marriage* and a subsequent bad roommate situation, I’ve learned I’m not good at living with someone else. And for me, you’re either in love and committed to the other person or you’re not, and an “official” piece of paper doesn’t make a difference.<\/p>\n

The [never married] Boyfriend (TB) doesn’t want to get married, either; it’s one of those “important in a relationship” things we have in common. As TB says, “Marriage is a fine institution. But I don’t want to be institutionalized.”<\/p>\n

* The divorce is quite successful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[thumb:1580:l] “You are domestically inclined and will be happily married.” After eating lunch yesterday at Bamboo Garden, I cracked open my fortune cookie. (I don’t eat them\u2014they aren’t vegan, the ingredients include eggs\u2014I just like to read the fortune.) I laughed out loud when I read this. I am most definitely not “domestically inclined.” Unless […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}