{"id":66,"date":"2002-03-11T22:04:49","date_gmt":"2002-03-12T03:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/jewish_singles_hiking_club"},"modified":"2002-03-11T22:04:49","modified_gmt":"2002-03-12T03:04:49","slug":"jewish_singles_hiking_club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2002\/03\/jewish_singles_hiking_club.html","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Singles Hiking Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nOn Sunday, I had lunch with an old student of mine, Ryan.
\nRyan recently graduated from UCSB, and he is just now starting
\nup his own graphic design firm,
\nGryphin Graphics<\/a>.
\nRyan’s a really nice guy, and he’s got a good head on his
\nshoulders — I think he’s gonna do great.\n<\/p>\n

\nAlthough Ryan is full of energy and enthusiasm, he is starting
\nto slow down a bit. “I
\nused to be able to go out dancing and stay out there for
\ntwo hours straight,” he said. “Now if I don’t keep in shape,
\nand eat right, I can only dance for half an hour before I
\nget winded.” Good Lord, my students<\/em> are showing signs
\nof age. I don’t even know what to think about that.\n<\/p>\n

\nI also have a nice story that I should have mentioned in
\nyesterday’s entry, but I forgot.
\nSomehow it got swallowed by the miasma of hatred that bubbled
\nup when I started up on the Windows 2000 topic. Well, here goes:
\nearly last week, Nancy<\/a> sent an email out,
\nasking if we wanted to attend an Jewish Singles Hiking Club
\nevent on Saturday. I responded, “Why go with them? Let’s just
\ngo on a hike on our own.”\n<\/p>\n

\nNancy admonished me, saying that it is always good to meet
\nnew people and “expand our circle of social influence” or
\nsome such. At this, I turned very snippy — I gave her my standard
\nspiel about young Jewish men and women being completely undatable.
\nBut in spite of that, I grudgingly agreed to go. That’s me in
\na nutshell — I’ll do what you want eventually, but I’ll make
\nyou regret you ever asked in the first place.\n<\/p>\n

\nSo Saturday morning I arrive at the appointed spot at the
\nappointed time — and lo and behold, the crowd was almost
\nentirely composed of senior citizens. The hike, as it were,
\nwould consist of a four-mile, three-hour jaunt across the
\nStanford campus. “You look cold, dearie,”
\nsaid a nice lady who did not in the least remind me of my late
\ngrandmother Ruth. “Would you like to borrow this sweater?”\n<\/p>\n

\nI smiled politely and waited for Nancy and
\nMike<\/a> to show up. They got out of the car
\nabout 75 yards away and frantically beckoned me over. “Ummm,”
\nsaid Nancy. “So we were thinking, maybe we should go hiking
\non our own.”\n<\/p>\n

\nSo we did. We even stole away the one other person under 55,
\na nice, quick-thinking young woman named Rita (“Ummm… are
\nyou guys going off on your own? Can I come with you?”)
\nAnd we had a great hike up in the foothills, with perfect cool
\nweather and lots of green foliage. And Rita brought almonds
\nand raisins.\n<\/p>\n

\nIn any case, the lesson from this experience is clear.
\nThe road of the single person is a dangerous one, full of
\npitfalls and traps for the unwary. Woe to ye who dare tread
\nit. Woe, I say! Whoa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The road of the single person is a dangerous one, full of pitfalls and traps for the unwary. Woe to ye who dare tread it. Woe, I say! Whoa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}