{"id":182,"date":"2005-09-11T21:07:39","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T01:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2021-01-08T20:44:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T02:44:09","slug":"never-eat-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/never-eat-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Eat Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was perusing my Amazon Recommendations (read:  procrastinating on <strong>Twilight <\/strong>Revisions) and came across a book titled, <strong>Never Eat Alone:  And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time<\/strong>.  Contrary to my first thought, this is not yet another weight loss fad diet.  It&#8217;s about being that gregarious person who always has plenty of people surrounding him or her. (Bah! Humbug!)<\/p>\n<p>But what if it were a fad weight loss diet?  If I could only eat when I was around others, I&#8217;d be a shadow of myself in less than a week&#8217;s time.  In fact, I&#8217;d quickly wither away and die, because the vast majority of my life is spent in solitude.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good thing I don&#8217;t do fad diets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was perusing my Amazon Recommendations (read: procrastinating on Twilight Revisions) and came across a book titled, Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time. Contrary to my first thought, this is not yet another weight loss fad diet. It&#8217;s about being that gregarious person <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/never-eat-alone\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[11,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-silly-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15110,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/15110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}