{"id":3364,"date":"2011-01-27T23:29:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T07:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2011-01-27T23:29:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T07:29:22","slug":"what-happens-after-meet-cute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3364","title":{"rendered":"What happens after &#8220;Meet Cute&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a very rare thing to find me at the movie theater watching a chick flick\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor better known as a rom-com.  It&#8217;s always someone&#8217;s else decision\u00e2\u20ac\u201da girly friend, perhaps one of my few female friends.  She says, <i>Hey let&#8217;s hang out&#8230;let&#8217;s catch a movie.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And suddenly I find myself surrounded by not one, not two&#8230;but many many girls in a theater hoping that the two will finally get together.  Meet cute!  Just kiss her already!  Make up and forgive!<\/p>\n<p>There was a movie that I went to see in Pittsburgh\u00e2\u20ac\u201dI don&#8217;t even remember the name, but I remember trying not to say anything afterwards, because I knew that she really really enjoyed it&#8230;and she wanted to have a girls&#8217; night.  And the other time which was all fine and dandy where I went to see Sex and the City (THE MOVIE) with my book club and fortunately we were civil enough to not discuss a single word afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>And tonight, it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chud.com\/31916\/from-damons-desk-no-strings-attached\/\">No Strings Attached<\/a>.  Looking back, I realized that the trailer really gave all the good parts away.  It wasn&#8217;t the Meet Cute stuff that I was interested in any more.  It was the moment after the &#8220;YES I WILL BE WITH YOU&#8221;.  It&#8217;s the discovery of each other, the resolution of conflicts, the personal growth, change&#8230;that&#8217;s what I am interested in.  Can that fit in a 2 hour movie and&#8230;is that a movie worth seeing?<\/p>\n<p>In some way, now that I know how &#8220;meet cute&#8221; usually works&#8230;it&#8217;s repetitive.  I want to know how other people work things out.  How do they work out the moments where they disagree at the core?  That&#8217;s what I am going to figure out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a very rare thing to find me at the movie theater watching a chick flick\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor better known as a rom-com. It&#8217;s always someone&#8217;s else decision\u00e2\u20ac\u201da girly friend, perhaps one of my few female friends. She says, Hey let&#8217;s hang &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3364\">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-3364","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\/3364","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=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3365,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions\/3365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}