{"id":1164,"date":"2003-01-30T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-30T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2003\/01\/i-choo-choo-choose-you.html"},"modified":"2003-01-30T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-30T13:33:00","slug":"i-choo-choo-choose-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2003\/01\/i-choo-choo-choose-you.html","title":{"rendered":"I Choo-Choo-Choose You"},"content":{"rendered":"

A quick trip to the bookstore during lunch revealed a lovely display of Valentine’s Day books. On a big table right in the front, there was a sign to the effect of “Presents for Your Valentine.” And what are the hot books for lovers? Well, prominently placed were How to Dump a Guy (A Coward’s Manual)<\/i><\/a>, Do You Love Me or Am I Just Paranoid: The Serial Monogamist’s Guide to Love<\/i><\/a>, How to Spot a Bastard by His Star Sign<\/i><\/a>, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days: The Universal Don’ts of Dating<\/i><\/a> (a book with a stick figure per page doing things such as asking a guy if she’s fat, lying about missing a period, and calling his friends for relationship advice), and Dumped: An Anthology<\/i><\/a>. Is it just me or does it seem the romance has gone out of dating? This is what passes for Valentine’s Day? This should be on a table under a sign that reads “Bitter About Love.” And while I’m here, let me say that it’s moronic what gets published these days. There’s Even God Is Single, So Stop Giving Me A Hard Time<\/i><\/a>, a picture book of all the reasons (twenty-six to be exact) why single is good. Don’t get me wrong, I like the concept. But a picture book? How about a web site instead. Or a comic book. And then there are Love Coupons<\/i><\/a>, for those too inane to come up with their own nice things to do for their mates. Puh-lease! How hard is it to draw a pretty picture and write “Back rub on demand.” And then there is a book–and hell if I can remember the name–that is verbatim–verbatim, I tell you–from an e-mail that went around years and years ago on what every woman should have\/know by the time she’s thirty. It was exactly the same as that e-mail!<\/i> I’ve got a folder full of old e-mail forwards that I’d be happy to publish under my name. What is up with the publishing industry? Geez!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A quick trip to the bookstore during lunch revealed a lovely display of Valentine’s Day books. On a big table right in the front, there was a sign to the effect of “Presents for Your Valentine.” And what are the hot books for lovers? Well, prominently placed were How to Dump a Guy (A Coward’s […]<\/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-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}