{"id":11539,"date":"2022-10-22T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T05:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=11539"},"modified":"2022-10-20T02:30:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T07:30:29","slug":"rosalie-and-rosalind-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=11539","title":{"rendered":"Rosalie and Rosalind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it impossible for people to understand that guys and girls can be \u201cjust friends?\u201d  And by the way, I hate that phrase. \u201cJust friends.\u201d  Like it is&#8230; SETTLING for something less if you don\u2019t frak a girl.  And speaking of phrases I hate, no, Rosalie and Rosalind were never \u201cfriends with benefits.\u201d  We were BEST FRIENDS for as long as I remember.  And since we\u2019re from Northern Minnesota, that definition gets pretty Puritanical.  I swear, making eyes at a girl might as well be foreplay.  Getting caught at second base is a prelude to a shotgun wedding.  And dancing?  With music?  Without a chaperone?  Positively living in sin!  What do you expect of a culture more famous for bonking a future bride over the head while \u201coff a Viking\u201d and taking her home rather than&#8230; oh&#8230; courting them?  I never did either with Rosalie and Rosalind.  Not then.  Not later.  Not now.  I hope that is frank enough for everybody to understand.  Even those of you in the back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it impossible for people to understand that guys and girls can be \u201cjust friends?\u201d And by the way, I hate that phrase. \u201cJust friends.\u201d Like it is&#8230; SETTLING for something less if you don\u2019t frak a girl. And speaking[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=11539\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diaries","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-jack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11540,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11539\/revisions\/11540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}