{"id":361,"date":"2011-09-05T18:09:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T01:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkicism.com\/wp\/?p=361"},"modified":"2011-09-05T21:43:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T04:43:08","slug":"the-cling-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkicism.com\/wp\/the-cling-on\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cling-On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move over Start Trek there&#8217;s a new alien in town &#8211; the Cling-on.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve all met her (and him &#8211; guys you&#8217;re not off the hook on this one)<\/p>\n<p>You meet this person, they&#8217;re awesome. Intelligent, funny, employeed&#8230; they&#8217;ve got it together AND they know where they&#8217;ve put it &#8211; and bonus, they seem to be interested in you. <\/p>\n<p>Can life get any sweeter.<\/p>\n<p>Then it happens&#8230; you may not even notice it at first but you start to feel like you&#8217;ve just walked through a spider&#8217;s web. Tiny invisible strands attempting to bind you. &#8220;Just wanted to say hi&#8217; texts&#8230; several times a day. Multiple phone messages while you were at work, even though your new beau knows you don&#8217;t take personal calls while on the job. That faint tone of reproach that you didn&#8217;t bend the rules to answer&#8230; just this once. <\/p>\n<p>I dated a guy that loved to pick me up from work. At first I thought it was nice but then after a week or two he&#8217;d start arriving early and hanging around the office lobby until my shift was over and then be very passive-aggressive about me making him wait. <\/p>\n<p>And I know several girls who are notorious for this. They&#8217;re well educated, strong women who become needy, basket-cases as soon as they get a new guy.<\/p>\n<p>Stop the madness!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move over Start Trek there&#8217;s a new alien in town &#8211; the Cling-on.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve all met her (and him &#8211; guys you&#8217;re not off the hook on this one) <a href=\"https:\/\/snarkicism.com\/wp\/the-cling-on\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating","category-girls-are-asshats-too","category-thesadsexlifeofsinglesadie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkicism.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkicism.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkicism.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkicism.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkicism.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/snarkicism.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/snarkicism.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkicism.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkicism.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkicism.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}