{"id":659,"date":"2003-12-17T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-18T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemussolini.com\/cm\/default.asp?n=149"},"modified":"2003-12-17T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-18T06:00:00","slug":"not-so-girly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"Not so girly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends,<\/p>\n<p \/>I am a poor excuse for a girl.<\/p>\n<p \/>The Sexiest Man Alive told me so last night, and obviously he must be right, since he is The Sexiest&#8230; never mind.<\/p>\n<p \/>He was shopping for Toys for Tots. Every year, he grabs a cart at Target, fills it up with cool stuff, and donates it to kids. That&#8217;s awesome. So, he needed help buying good girl toys, and since we had some success when I went with him to pick out his clothes, he invited me along for this task.<\/p>\n<p \/>Apparently, I failed. I apologized for enforcing my political agenda on his toy-purchases, but I didn&#8217;t think I was too extreme: I just didn&#8217;t want to buy Barbie, or the stereotypical girl toys. I wanted things that would encourage interaction and learning, like the art set, and the Hello Kitty jewelry making kit (and I have to point out that Hello Kitty probably beats Barbie when it comes to girly). Also, I wouldn&#8217;t let him buy anything violent or war-related. We picked out cool stuff, like spaceship Legos, Simpsons Clue, a supercute teddy bear, and a wooden train set. I thought we did a good job.<\/p>\n<p \/>He said that next year he&#8217;s going to just find some teenage girls in the toy department and ask them. I told him I hoped he got arrested.<\/p>\n<p \/>Jenni<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends, I am a poor excuse for a girl. The Sexiest Man Alive told me so last night, and obviously he must be right, since he is The Sexiest&#8230; never mind. He was shopping for Toys for Tots. Every year, he grabs a cart at Target, fills it up with cool stuff, and donates &#8230;<a class=\"post-readmore\" href=\"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=659\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9qt-aD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}