{"id":37,"date":"2011-08-04T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/dating-take-2\/"},"modified":"2020-04-04T13:50:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T20:50:35","slug":"dating-take-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Dating &#8211; take 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a number of contacts in the five weeks that I&#8217;ve been a member on the Plenty of Fish dating site. Many never went far for various reasons. I prefer to focus on one person at a time. So I&#8217;ve been out of circulation during much of that time. At this point there have only been two women that I&#8217;ve focused on.<\/p>\n<p>I recently ended communication with the second. This was the first contact I&#8217;ve met face to face.<\/p>\n<p>We knew each other for one month, although we had only four dates. Long story short&#8230; I got dumped.<\/p>\n<p>A number of years ago I learned the hard way that when someone expresses doubts about a relationship, it&#8217;s best to simply accept it, say goodbye and move on. Although there might be an instinct to try and salvage things, that can have bad results down the road. <\/p>\n<p>One thing I know&#8230; I do not want to be in a relationship where the other person isn&#8217;t certain they want to be there.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll admit that I&#8217;ve made a number of good-sized mistakes in my dating experiences so far. But I am determined&#8230; I will get better at this. I&#8217;ve been dumped twice now in a little over a month. And I haven&#8217;t died. It actually makes one feel rather alive. And it sure beats what I&#8217;ve been doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a number of contacts in the five weeks that I&#8217;ve been a member on the Plenty of Fish dating site. Many never went far for various reasons. I prefer to focus on one person at a time. So I&#8217;ve been out of circulation during much of that time. At this point there have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/moondog.org\/?p=37\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dating &#8211; take 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}