{"id":11033,"date":"2025-02-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=11033"},"modified":"2025-02-26T15:06:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T21:06:45","slug":"deep-ryan-lore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=11033","title":{"rendered":"Deep Ryan Lore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A random thought pooped into my head today: it has been exactly 20 years since the first time I ever asked a girl on a date. Well, like, 20 years and a day? Or a week? I&#8217;m 98% sure it was on a Saturday, but whether it was the 19th or 26th, I haven&#8217;t got a clue. I can&#8217;t pinpoint these things <em>that<\/em> precisely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, she turned me down. To make myself feel better, I bought a PlayStation 2. Oh, how different life might have been&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coincidentally, it&#8217;s been 10 years (and a month) since my ex-wife walked out on me. Fortunately, there are currently no women in my life in <em>that<\/em> capacity, and thus my heart cannot possibly be broken this year. The cycle of pain ends! Hooray!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Please note that I <em>did<\/em> notice the typo in the first paragraph and almost corrected it, but then I decided that it&#8217;s funnier as-is.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A random thought pooped into my head today: it has been exactly 20 years since the first time I ever asked a girl on a date. Well, like, 20 years and a day? Or a week? I&#8217;m 98% sure it was on a Saturday, but whether it was the 19th or 26th, I haven&#8217;t got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=11033\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deep Ryan Lore<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b","category-irl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11034,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11033\/revisions\/11034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}