{"id":6510,"date":"2022-09-29T03:02:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T03:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movesflash.com\/?p=6510"},"modified":"2022-09-29T03:02:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T03:02:34","slug":"strobe-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/29\/strobe-men\/","title":{"rendered":"STROBE MEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tmpl-blog-1 boldgrid-section dynamic-gridblock\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"padding-top: 76px;\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-2 col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-8 col-sm-8 col-xs-12 col-lg-8\">\n<h1 class=\"\" style=\"border-width: 0px;\">STROBE MEN<\/h1>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"margin: 20px 0; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"bg-img alignnone wp-image-6504 \" src=\"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/feature-2-1024x725.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"606\" height=\"429\"><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"\">By Sophia Fox-Sowell<\/h6>\n<p class=\"\">But alas, I grow bored with this chase.<br \/>\nI\u2019m too old to play this game.<br \/>\nthere\u2019ll always be another mongrel hungry enough<br \/>\nTo chase my tail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Time to check Tinder, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter<br \/>\nOr whatever it is<br \/>\nThat will distract me from this silly daydream of my life<br \/>\nAnd toss me back into a cyber-reality from whence I came.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Where photos force FOMO, and statuses do more than<br \/>\nAdjust that status quo.<br \/>\nUpdating once every week is no longer sufficient to<br \/>\nSay your social media is current.<br \/>\nYou might as well quit while you\u2019re behind,<br \/>\nThe only way to get ahead is to lose your mind.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s either follow or be followed.<br \/>\nFollowers never lead, they simply have a plethora of paths to walk down,<br \/>\nWhich is why they always bow their head.<br \/>\nThe leaders of followers,<br \/>\nSo self-absorbed in their bubble of conceit,<br \/>\nThey\u2019d rather look at their screen than at the pedestrian<br \/>\nWalking in front of their SUV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Texting while driving is dangerous<br \/>\nTexting while walking is deadly<br \/>\nAnd texting whilst dating\u2014that\u2019s just sad.<\/p>\n<p>It makes me mad to think that my children will never meet<br \/>\nThe way my mom met my dad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Because it\u2019s too scary to walk up to someone and say,<br \/>\n\u201cI like your shirt.\u201d<br \/>\nIt\u2019s much easier to go online,<br \/>\nMake a profile,<br \/>\nMake ridiculous claims about yourself,<br \/>\nWhose chances of being true are rated as slim to none,<br \/>\nEven on a Magic 8 ball.<br \/>\nNow wait.<br \/>\nWait some more.<br \/>\nGet a hit.<br \/>\nNot interested.<br \/>\nGet more.<br \/>\nGet excited.<br \/>\nGet one that seems okay.<br \/>\nSift through whatever pictures aren\u2019t private for any hidden gem of their face<br \/>\nThat way if you misplace your phone, you\u2019d still be able<br \/>\nTo stalk them from memory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Message.<br \/>\nMessage back.<br \/>\nEngage in flirtatious word innuendos.<br \/>\nMeet.<br \/>\nRealize you built him up in your head.<br \/>\nRealize he built himself up.<br \/>\nGo home disappointed and depressed.<br \/>\nOnly to check your message board when you get home to see<br \/>\nIf anyone contacted you on your date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">So fucking sad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STROBE MEN By Sophia Fox-Sowell But alas, I grow bored with this chase. I\u2019m too old to play this game. there\u2019ll always be another mongrel hungry enough To chase my tail. Time to check Tinder, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter Or whatever it is That will distract me from this silly daydream of my life And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510","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=6510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}