{"id":1428,"date":"2009-11-03T09:46:45","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T16:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2009-11-01T16:48:53","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T23:48:53","slug":"date-or-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/03\/date-or-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"date or bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago, Rama and I went on our first baby-free outing, and I am sad to admit it was a bust. <\/p>\n<p>When my parents said they&#8217;d take care of Henry for an <a href=\"javascript:alert('I know, how lucky are we?!');\" onmouseover=\"window.status=' footnote '; return true\" title=\"footnote\">entire afternoon and evening<\/a>, my mind went wild with the possibilities. I made plans, tons of them. I imagined a quick jaunt to the other side of town for a <a href=\"javascript:alert('which I normally would have put off, except that my stylist books 6 weeks in advance and postponing was out of the question');\" onmouseover=\"window.status=' footnote '; return true\" title=\"footnote\">hair cut<\/a> followed by a stop at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janm.org\/exhibits\/\" target=\"_New\">Giant Robot<\/a> show, a nice meal out and a <a href=\"http:\/\/wherethewildthingsare.warnerbros.com\/\" target=\"_new\">late night movie<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>We ended up spending most of the evening in the car, stuck in traffic. <\/p>\n<p>I had been looking forward to the date all week, hoping for some romance and rejuvenation. Instead, I got a dose of disappointment and frustration.<\/p>\n<p>The night was not without its <a href=\"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/25\/portrait-of-an-artist\/\" target=\"_new\">high points<\/a>, but overall it was not the date I thought we&#8217;d be having. That&#8217;s because I had imagined an impossible date. I had put way too much stock in one evening, and nothing could live up to that hype.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m trying to introduce a little romance and relaxation every day, instead. A nice meal here. A quick outing there. Things we can, you know, actually do.<\/p>\n<p>And the next time we find ourselves out on a date, I am settling for a movie. <em>Maybe, just maybe,<\/em> I&#8217;ll suggest we grab some frozen yogurt afterward, but I won&#8217;t push my luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago, Rama and I went on our first baby-free outing, and I am sad to admit it was a bust. When my parents said they&#8217;d take care of Henry for an entire afternoon and evening, my mind went wild with the possibilities. I made plans, tons of them. I imagined a quick jaunt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}