{"id":11725,"date":"2025-02-24T12:21:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T12:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/the-idiots-guide-to\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T13:28:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T13:28:55","slug":"the-idiots-guide-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/the-idiots-guide-to\/","title":{"rendered":"The Idiot&#8217;s Guide to&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m no sociology expert, but the popularity of self-help dating books and many columns in women\u2019s magazines is fascinating to me, mostly just because they\u2019re all bullshit. Whatever happened to the concept of being yourself? Nowadays, American women are doling out wads of cash to read up on all the reasons they\u2019re still single, or discover what they need to do get a guy to propose. The fact that publishers everywhere are capitalizing on the idea that all single American women are pathetically boy-crazy, desperate, and so mindless that they need a book to teach them how to flirt with a guy is much more depressing than simply being single.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m no sociology expert, but the popularity of self-help dating books and many columns in women\u2019s magazines is fascinating to me, mostly just because they\u2019re all bullshit. Whatever happened to the concept of being yourself? Nowadays, American women are doling out wads of cash to read up on all the reasons they\u2019re still single, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12382,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11725\/revisions\/12382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}