{"id":3996,"date":"2004-10-30T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-30T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/sex-and-the-pity\/"},"modified":"2004-10-30T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-30T03:00:00","slug":"sex-and-the-pity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/sex-and-the-pity\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex and the Pity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every great Friday night out with the girls begs some comparison to the fearsome foursome of Sex and the City.  Who&#8217;s quiet Charlotte, the girl who believes in love? Who&#8217;s cynical Miranda? Who&#8217;s hot, hot, hot for sex like Samantha? And who&#8217;s Carrie? We passed this phase after a few martinis and settled into the real topic of conversation: men.  Unfortunately, this had dire consequences so close to the election&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>She: &#8220;I should never, under any circumstances, be allowed to speak to men.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: &#8220;Why?&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>She: &#8220;I always say the wrong thing! I can&#8217;t talk to them! I&#8217;m giving up&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: &#8220;You can&#8217;t give up! Maybe you should channel Carrie when you speak.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>She: &#8220;Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: &#8220;What?&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>She (sputtering): &#8220;Why? Why&#8230;would I channel Kerry?!&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: &#8220;Carrie? Because Carrie gets the guys.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>She: &#8220;Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! I&#8217;m gonna vote for him, but no! NO, NO, NO!&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: &#8220;Carrie. Carrie Bradshaw. Sex and the City. What in the hell did you think I was talking about?&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>She: &#8220;Oh, no. It&#8217;s worse than I thought!&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: &#8220;What?&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>She: &#8220;I can&#8217;t talk to women, either.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: &#8220;Oh. Have another drink.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every great Friday night out with the girls begs some comparison to the fearsome foursome of Sex and the City. Who&#8217;s quiet Charlotte, the girl who believes in love? Who&#8217;s cynical Miranda? Who&#8217;s hot, hot, hot for sex like Samantha? And who&#8217;s Carrie? We passed this phase after a few martinis and settled into the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}