{"id":7172,"date":"2013-10-10T22:55:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T22:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=7172"},"modified":"2013-11-19T19:34:24","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T19:34:24","slug":"offering-yourself-on-a-plate-to-a-collection-of-the-worlds-lonelies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/10\/offering-yourself-on-a-plate-to-a-collection-of-the-worlds-lonelies\/","title":{"rendered":"offering yourself on a plate to a collection of the world&#8217;s lonelies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/thecut\/2013\/10\/how-tinder-solved-online-dating-for-women.html\" target=\"_blank\">How Tinder Solved Online Dating for Women &#8211; NYmag.com \/The Cut<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Perhaps most important, Tinder is a far cry from the exercise in self-flagellation that online dating has come to signify for many women. \u201cIt didn&#8217;t feel like offering yourself on a plate to a collection of the world&#8217;s \u2018lonelies,\u2019\u201d says Natasha Bird, who lives in London. \u201cIt also allowed for the more casual type of connection without seeming totally sleazy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>this was my experience <em>exactly<\/em>, when i dipped into the world of online dating, shortly in NYC in 2004 (never went out with anyone, but came close with a guy whose email address was <strong>mike@upthebuttandaroundthecorner.com<\/strong>) and portland in 2009, where i went on two dates, one with someone who had lied about being divorced (? why?) and one nice guy who looked like a youth group minister (but wasn&#8217;t), had a daughter, sang sacred harp, and who tried to give me a hug but instead fell on me from behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from &#8220;How Tinder Solved Online Dating for Women &#8211; NYmag.com \/The Cut&#8220;: Perhaps most important, Tinder is a far cry from the exercise in self-flagellation that online dating has come to signify for many women. \u201cIt didn&#8217;t feel like offering yourself on a plate to a collection of the world&#8217;s \u2018lonelies,\u2019\u201d says Natasha Bird, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7172"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7365,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7172\/revisions\/7365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}