{"id":4813,"date":"2011-02-06T11:20:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T16:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=4813"},"modified":"2011-02-06T11:26:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T16:26:05","slug":"awww-youre-just-a-tad-confused-is-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/4813","title":{"rendered":"Awww&#8230;You&#8217;re Just A Tad Confused Is All&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clearly, this poor lost fuckless soul is not one with the spirit of Valentine&#8217;s Day&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/2011\/02\/04\/male-rights-activist-boycotts-the-nomance-of-valentines-day\/\">Male Rights Activist Calls for Valentine&#8217;s Day Boycott<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Any guy who gives flowers on Feb. 14 is a blooming idiot.<\/p>\n<p>So says Marc Rudov, a relationship expert in Los Gatos, Calif., who is on a campaign to get American men to boycott Valentine&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>According to Rudov, who has authored books such as <em><strong>&#8220;Under the Clitoral  Hood: How to Crank Her Engine Without Cash, Booze or Jumper Cables,&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> believes Valentine&#8217;s Day should be canceled permanently because it  promotes unequality of the sexes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, no&#8230; \u00a0 That sense that you have been cast forever into the status of abject inferiority is all just part of the light-hearted carefree Fun! \u00a0 Smile&#8230;You Are Not Worthy!<\/p>\n<p>Need some jumper cables there guy? \u00a0 Well&#8230;you <em>could<\/em> go buy yourself some flowers and chocolate and send yourself a Valentine&#8217;s Day card from that imaginary girl friend whose engine you crank every night at bedtime. \u00a0 Or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;you could enter our Forth Annual Casa del Garrett Valentine&#8217;s Day Poster Contest! \u00a0 That is&#8230;if you can manage to slip your worthy entry in before the deadline passes. \u00a0 So Hurry&#8230;the deadline is February 5! \u00a0 You might just make it. \u00a0 It&#8217;s a slim, almost totally hopeless chance&#8230;one in a million. \u00a0 No&#8230;one in a zilllion. \u00a0 <em>One in a Bazillion<\/em>. \u00a0 You&#8217;d be crazy to even think of trying. \u00a0 But&#8230;isn&#8217;t that one slim chance of success in the face of certain doom worth the risk? \u00a0 You might just beat the odds after all. \u00a0 Maybe. \u00a0 Just maybe. \u00a0 If you don&#8217;t try you&#8217;ll wonder for the rest of your life if you might have won The Big Prize after all. \u00a0 So do it! \u00a0 Go for it man! \u00a0 Crank that engine! \u00a0 Remember&#8230;deadline is February 5th. \u00a0 If you give it your all you might just make it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clearly, this poor lost fuckless soul is not one with the spirit of Valentine&#8217;s Day&#8230; Male Rights Activist Calls for Valentine&#8217;s Day Boycott Any guy who gives flowers on Feb. 14 is a blooming idiot. So says Marc Rudov, a relationship expert in Los Gatos, Calif., who is on a campaign to get American men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-4813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-the-dumpsville-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813","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=4813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}