{"id":68,"date":"2002-03-17T19:45:42","date_gmt":"2002-03-18T00:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/dance_ryan_dance"},"modified":"2002-03-17T19:45:42","modified_gmt":"2002-03-18T00:45:42","slug":"dance_ryan_dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2002\/03\/dance_ryan_dance.html","title":{"rendered":"Dance, Ryan, Dance!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAbout this month&#8217;s sidebar&#8230; <em>I take it all back<\/em>.  Yes, I&#8217;ve remembered why<br \/>\nI read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewsullivan.com\" title=\"right-wing gay Catholic commentator\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a>: it&#8217;s because he<br \/>\npoints me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dissentmagazine.org\/wwwboard\/salon.html\" \ntitle=\"discussion on: Can There Be a Decent Left? at a left wing magazine\">articles like<br \/>\nthis one<\/a> at Dissent Magazine.  Andrew, baby, I&#8217;m sorry!  Forget all those<br \/>\nmean things I said.  I think we can work things out.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd since I&#8217;m taking things back, I have to issue another Official Retraction.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gryphingraphics.com\" title=\"Gryphin Graphics\">Ryan<\/a> writes to inform me that I was incorrect<br \/>\nto <a href=\"\/Journal\/2002\/Mar\/#11\" title=\"Silly me, he's just a spring chicken!\">say that he was starting to slow down<\/a> in his<br \/>\nold age.  In fact, now that he is getting more exercise:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n&#8230;I&#8217;ll have you know, I only USED to get winded after a half-hour of dancing.  Now<br \/>\nI&#8217;m back up to par and shakin&#8217; it with a vengeance for 2+ hours every weekend.<br \/>\n\ud83d\ude42 So put that in your journal and smoke it.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nRyan, I apologize for misrepresenting you like that.<br \/>\nListen up, everyone:  I want you all to know that for the record, Ryan is a lean, mean,<br \/>\ndancing machine.  Watch out, ladies!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nYesterday Mom and I went over ideas for her website. I&#8217;m going to be helping her out<br \/>\nwith it from now on.  She even bought her own domain name (hencigoer.com) and everything.<br \/>\nDoes <em>your<\/em> mom have her own domain name?  I bet she doesn&#8217;t&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn related news, Mom&#8217;s book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.efn.org\/~djz\/birth\/betterbirth\/\" title=\"Best. Pregancy Book. Ever.\">The Thinking<br \/>\nWoman&#8217;s Guide to a Better Birth<\/a><\/em>, just earned out its advance.  Not bad!  It usually<br \/>\nspends its time hovering between #1000 and #3000 at Amazon, which is pretty good, considering<br \/>\nthat they carry well over a million titles.  Anyway, you absolutely must get this book if<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re pregnant,   Or if you&#8217;re thinking about getting pregnant.  Or if you know someone who&#8217;s<br \/>\npregnant.  Or if you know someone who&#8217;s thinking about getting pregnant.<br \/>\nOr if you know anyone at all who could end up being pregnant in the future.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIncidentally, when I went to Amazon to check my Mom&#8217;s book&#8217;s stats, I also checked out my<br \/>\nRecommendations section:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Books:  The Divine Comedy<\/li>\n<li>Music:  &#8220;Iowa&#8221;, by Slipknot<\/li>\n<li>Video games:  Tony Hawk&#8217;s Pro Skater 3<\/li>\n<li>DVD:  PBS&#8217;s &#8220;The Greeks &#8211; Crucible of Civilization&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nSo according to Amazon, I&#8217;m a Late Medieval poetry-loving, heavy-metal listening,<br \/>\nPBS-watching skate punk.  Yup, they&#8217;ve got me pegged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew, baby, I&#8217;m sorry! Forget all those mean things I said. I think we can work things out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","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=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}