{"id":200,"date":"2006-05-08T14:17:01","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T19:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/200"},"modified":"2006-05-08T18:40:31","modified_gmt":"2006-05-08T23:40:31","slug":"that-vast-untapped-market-of-lonely-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/200","title":{"rendered":"That Vast Untapped Market Of Lonely People&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some days you gotta wonder if the cultural scolds aren&#8217;t right about this being a lost world.&nbsp; Once upon a time it was only prostitutes and the marketers of vibrators and skin magazines who plied their trade to the lonely and love lorn.&nbsp; But at least the sex itself was real.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/sleepbuddy.com\/boyfriend-arm-pillow.html\">It&#8217;s come to this now<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"285\" alt=\" \" src=\"\/sleepbuddy.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">No.&nbsp; Just&#8230;no.&nbsp; There&#8217;s something seriously wrong here.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve had an arm around me as I slept a time or two in my life.&nbsp; There&#8217;s no comparing the embrace of a real live human to a stuffed pillow shaped like an arm with a stuffed hand shaped appendage at the end of it.&nbsp; Christ&#8230;that photo is depressing as hell.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I saw something similar in kind about a year ago&#8230;interestingly it was another Japanese product&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"409\" height=\"332\" alt=\" \" src=\"\/lap_pillow.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I dunno&#8230;&nbsp; How do you bring one of those into your house without wanting to just shoot yourself?&nbsp; At least with a prostitute, the sex is real.&nbsp; But you can&#8217;t fake having a lover.&nbsp; You just can&#8217;t.&nbsp; At least I can&#8217;t.&nbsp; That&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve never been tempted by prostitutes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days you gotta wonder if the cultural scolds aren&#8217;t right about this being a lost world.&nbsp; Once upon a time it was only prostitutes and the marketers of vibrators and skin magazines who plied their trade to the lonely and love lorn.&nbsp; But at least the sex itself was real.&nbsp; It&#8217;s come to this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-koyaanisqatsi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}