{"id":8108,"date":"2023-06-20T07:59:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T07:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movesflash.com\/?p=8108"},"modified":"2023-06-20T07:59:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T07:59:39","slug":"romeo-romeo-wherefore-art-though-romeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/20\/romeo-romeo-wherefore-art-though-romeo\/","title":{"rendered":"Romeo, Romeo Wherefore Doth Thee Swipe Left, Oh Romeo"},"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\">\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-8 col-sm-8 col-xs-12 col-lg-8\">\n<h1 class=\"\" style=\"border-width: 0px; text-align: center;\">Romeo, Romeo Wherefore Doth Thee Swipe Left, Oh Romeo<\/h1>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"margin: 20px 0; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"bg-img alignnone wp-image-8094 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/feature-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1554\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/feature-1.jpg 1554w, https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/feature-1-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/feature-1-1024x445.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/feature-1-768x334.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/feature-1-1536x668.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/feature-1-860x374.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1554px) 100vw, 1554px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Coming of age in a digital world has been weird in many ways, not in the least for what it\u2019s done to my idea of romance. I\u2019ve always been a timid person when it comes to romantic encounters; growing up, I was neither particularly attractive nor exceedingly confident, which led to years of watching my peers achieve romantic success without trying while I wasn\u2019t even given a second glance by the people I liked. My high school years engendered in me a pretty nasty fear of rejection, and as a result I never made my feelings known to anyone who caught my eye. Then, when I turned eighteen and got access to the online dating world, I was incredibly excited: online, you don\u2019t have to fear rejection, because you\u2019ll never have a conversation with someone who you aren\u2019t already sure is interested in you. I know many of my peers feel the same way, because I\u2019ve seen them on Tinder (too many of them, in fact \u2013 I don\u2019t need to know your dick size, guy-I-went-to-high-school-with). But online dating lost its luster for me almost immediately. Sure, you don\u2019t have to feel the fear of rejection, but that\u2019s just because you don\u2019t have to feel much of anything at all. Worse, online dating may have begun as just that \u2013 online \u2013 but its cultural implications have been felt in real life as well; now that you can meet someone the easy way, why bother telling that attractive friend of a friend that you\u2019re into them and risk rejection? Why bother opening yourself up to any emotion at all? The robotic, clinical nature of online dating affects not only those who choose to participate but also who do not, and I\u2019m sick of the dispassionate sense the whole process has left me with. Where\u2019s my meet-cute?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Romeo, Romeo Wherefore Doth Thee Swipe Left, Oh Romeo &nbsp; Coming of age in a digital world has been weird in many ways, not in the least for what it\u2019s done to my idea of romance. I\u2019ve always been a timid person when it comes to romantic encounters; growing up, I was neither particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8094,"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-8108","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\/8108","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=8108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}