{"id":29,"date":"2002-12-16T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-17T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laughingmonkey.org\/?p=29"},"modified":"2002-12-16T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-17T03:41:00","slug":"mid-life-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Mid-life crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I heard two women deriding some poor guy for going through a &#8220;mid-life crisis&#8221;. I took the opportunity to offer them both some (unsolicited) insight into this phenomenon. Let&#8217;s be absolutely clear about this, it has nothing to do with being middle aged. Men <b>always<\/b> want a hot little red sports car. They wanted it as a young lad, they wanted in as a young man, and they want it in middle age. That just happens to be when they can actually afford it! It should be called a &#8220;positive cash flow crisis&#8221;. If we could have gotten the cute little blond trophy wife at age 20, we would have, honest.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, &#8220;hot little red sports car&#8221;. &#8220;cute little blond trophy wife&#8221;. I suppose the ideal would be a hot little sports car with breasts. On the other hand, I&#8217;ve tried a cute little girlfriend who had twin exhausts, and that didn&#8217;t work out at all. *cough*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I heard two women deriding some poor guy for going through a &#8220;mid-life crisis&#8221;. I took the opportunity to offer them both some (unsolicited) insight into this phenomenon. Let&#8217;s&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/?p=29\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}