{"id":130,"date":"2019-03-21T12:37:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo-content.kaliumtheme.com\/bookstore\/?p=130"},"modified":"2020-11-20T22:18:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T19:18:36","slug":"books-with-horrible-dating-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humancapitalinternational.org\/books\/books-with-horrible-dating-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Books with Horrible Dating Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"image-placeholder video\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.25000000%\"><video controls class=\"video-js-el vjs-default-skin vjs-minimal-skin\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" data-vsetup=\"{&quot;techOrder&quot;:[&quot;youtube&quot;],&quot;sources&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;video\\\/youtube&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/youtu.be\\\/ORjtrEW8whg?t=2&quot;}],&quot;youtube&quot;:{&quot;iv_load_policy&quot;:1,&quot;ytControls&quot;:3,&quot;customVars&quot;:{&quot;wmode&quot;:&quot;transparent&quot;,&quot;controls&quot;:0},&quot;enablePrivacyEnhancedMode&quot;:&quot;true&quot;}}\" preload=\"auto\"><\/video><\/span><br \/>\nWhen I was single, I hated dating\u2014which is probably why I didn\u2019t do much of it. There are so many unspoken rules, and girls play games, and it\u2019s enough to make you want to become a celibate monk. Okay, it\u2019s not quite that bad.\u00a0Fortunately, I was lucky enough to find the right girl, and the rest is history.<br \/>\n Raven: My year of dating dangerously &#8211; Monica Porter<br \/>\nBut even though my \u201cgame\u201d probably sucked, I knew some common rules of dating. I mean, the really, really basic do\u2019s and don\u2019ts.<br \/>\nThe same can\u2019t be said for some of these characters from literature. These guys and girls really knew how to screw up some relationships.<br \/>\nHere\u2019s the type of advice they might give you based on their stories.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cGirly, spineless men are the most attractive kind of men. Obsess over them, and never stop obsessing over them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2013Scarlett O\u2019Hara (Gone With The Wind)<br \/>\nWe all know Rhett Butler had serious game. You know who had terrible game? Ashley Wilkes, the man whom Scarlett spends almost the entirety of Gone With The Wind obsessing over. She\u2019s the worst. She\u2019s the literal worst.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf you stalk her enough, she\u2019ll eventually love you.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2013Gatsby (The Great Gatsby)<br \/>\n Textbook Romance &#8211; Zoe Foster<br \/>\nLadies, if you knew that a dude built his house across the lake just so he could stand on a dock and longingly stare at a light on your dock, and if you knew that same dude threw million dollar parties in hopes you\u2019d show up, and\u00a0if you also knew that same dude liked to hide in the bushes outside your house, wouldn\u2019t you just fall head over heels in love? Or maybe you\u2019d just call the police. It\u2019s a miracle Daisy never had a restraining order put out on Gatsby.<br \/>\nLadies, if you knew that a dude built his house across the lake just so he could stand on a dock and longingly stare at a light on your dock, and if you knew that same dude threw million dollar parties in hopes you\u2019d show up, and if you also knew that same dude liked to hide in the bushes outside your house, wouldn\u2019t you just fall head over heels in love? Or maybe you\u2019d just call the police. It\u2019s a miracle Daisy never had a restraining order put out on Gatsby.<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-list-component yr-content-list-text text\" data-rapid-cpos=\"2\" data-rapid-subsec=\"paragraph\" data-rapid-parsed=\"subsec\">\nThere have been a slew of books written on how to attract men\/women, and you\u2019d be surprised at just how bad some of the tips actually are. For example, J.Woww (of Jersey Shore fame) suggests that women wear tight, short, cleavage-baring outfits in order to attract a good catch.<br \/>\nVeniam officia commodo aute et anim voluptate consectetur esse adipisicing commodo minim occaecat. Minim incididunt laborum esse ullamco dolore. Est esse aute magna ipsum ullamco proident ex esse. Aute aute nostrud sint laborum enim eiusmod velit anim cillum esse.<br \/>\nVeniam eiusmod excepteur officia exercitation elit fugiat proident enim sint aute elit aute sunt. Et eiusmod mollit magna voluptate incididunt magna est dolore fugiat pariatur fugiat esse. Est exercitation excepteur ullamco elit eiusmod nulla. Duis culpa dolore excepteur laboris ullamco quis amet occaecat reprehenderit aliqua. Ipsum et esse officia ea qui elit ullamco cupidatat. Excepteur velit nulla labore id sint proident aliqua.<br \/>\nNulla quis culpa consectetur nisi sunt ad dolor sit nostrud. Ex commodo sunt occaecat eu sunt dolor esse dolor sint sunt pariatur incididunt nisi. Culpa excepteur incididunt ullamco sit veniam ad cupidatat fugiat velit. Laborum eiusmod commodo aliqua eu consectetur culpa aute sint dolor.\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component yr-content-list-text text\" data-rapid-cpos=\"4\" data-rapid-subsec=\"paragraph\" data-rapid-parsed=\"subsec\">\nRead any bad dating advice lately? 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Okay, it\u2019s not quite that bad.\u00a0Fortunately, I was lucky enough to find the right girl, and the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[19,23,27,32],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","category-reviews","tag-advice","tag-dating","tag-horrible","tag-love","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humancapitalinternational.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humancapitalinternational.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humancapitalinternational.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humancapitalinternational.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humancapitalinternational.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/humancapitalinternational.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2202,"href":"https:\/\/humancapitalinternational.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/2202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humancapitalinternational.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humancapitalinternational.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humancapitalinternational.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humancapitalinternational.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}