{"id":6818,"date":"2014-07-30T05:30:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T12:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=6818"},"modified":"2014-07-30T16:54:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T23:54:07","slug":"the-best-base-for-a-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=6818","title":{"rendered":"The best basis for a relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"

All we had in common was movies, sex and hamburgers
\n–Bettie Page<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems like that is as rational as any other basis for a relationship. Culture, romance and food. <\/p>\n

When the sex wore out, you’d still have movies and hamburgers.<\/p>\n

Or, if you got tired of movies and burgers, you’d have sex. <\/p>\n

Or sex at the movies if you got tired of just burgers. <\/p>\n

It seems practically ideal. <\/p>\n

I miss drive-ins…<\/p>\n

Anyway, Bettie’s marriage with the movie\/hamburger\/sex guy didn’t last. That doesn’t mean it can’t work for me someday, does it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All we had in common was movies, sex and hamburgers –Bettie Page It seems like that is as rational as any other basis for a relationship. Culture, romance and food. When the sex wore out, you’d still have movies and hamburgers. Or, if you got tired of movies and burgers, you’d have sex. Or sex … Continue reading The best basis for a relationship<\/span><\/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":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-1LY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6740,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=6740","url_meta":{"origin":6818,"position":0},"title":"Cheese and sex","author":"Michelle","date":"July 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\"You two probably haven't swallowed a lot of semen\" --Chelle to the men \"That is what we used to listen to during...you know..\" \"Camembert time?\" --Paddy and Michelle So, since I have mentioned this a few times in passing, and people keep asking...I am going to write about my feeling\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Words"","block_context":{"text":"Words","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?cat=7"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9325,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=9325","url_meta":{"origin":6818,"position":1},"title":"Online dating, the plus side","author":"Michelle","date":"February 19, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Just because you feel, hollow inside it's real I'm gonna put something in you Make the devil feel surprised --Mazzy Star\/All Your Sisters If someone has filled out their online dating profile in their own words and answered a representative sample of the entertainingly intrusive questions you can get a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Words"","block_context":{"text":"Words","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?cat=7"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_2470-0.jpg?fit=341%2C391&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10605,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=10605","url_meta":{"origin":6818,"position":2},"title":"An imaginary conversation about gray days","author":"Michelle","date":"October 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Some days I just really wonder. 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