{"id":2111,"date":"2007-07-27T23:59:35","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T06:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2007-07-28T00:06:13","modified_gmt":"2007-07-28T07:06:13","slug":"like-that-80s-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2111","title":{"rendered":"Like that 80s song&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/g\/a\/2007\/07\/25\/notes072507.DTL&#038;hw=love&#038;sn=022&#038;sc=552\">Really, do we know what love is?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At some point in our lives, our nosy relatives and friends freely give away advice.  Some to tell us who we&#8217;re right with.  Sex and the City taught us one way\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto fight for our own.  And all the other chick flicks.  Just wait and he will come.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not that.  I have sat through my friend&#8217;s breakups.  Listened to their troubles.  I have heard of happiness and&#8230;the boredom.  And the fleetingness of pickiness.  The string of dates that end up in an awkward goodbye.  And to some, it becomes a free dinner on a Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He annoys me,&#8221; a friend told me recently.  Then she added, &#8220;He&#8217;s too green.  How can I be with someone who doesn&#8217;t know what love is?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But there are so many times we encounter <i>what if?<\/i>  and <i>could have<\/i>.  And that&#8217;s why some start looking the other way.  &#8220;Until something better comes along&#8221; or as Joe finely put it &#8220;Until <i>something<\/i> comes along.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There is no such thing as fate.  If there was, we wouldn&#8217;t keep moving away.  We wouldn&#8217;t make decisions based on pickiness.  We would have stayed because it was meant to be.  It&#8217;s like success.  Being at the right place at the right time.  And the right person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really, do we know what love is? At some point in our lives, our nosy relatives and friends freely give away advice. Some to tell us who we&#8217;re right with. Sex and the City taught us one way\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto fight for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2111\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}