{"id":1019,"date":"2008-03-24T23:13:19","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T04:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2008-03-24T23:13:19","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T04:13:19","slug":"is-it-really-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=1019","title":{"rendered":"Is it really true?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I let out a knee slappin&#8217; guffaw when I read that a British survey said that 49% of men would go without sex for six months to get a 50-inch plasma TV (Mar. 10, 2008, <i>New Yorker<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t do it for a TV, but I might consider it for a full set of professional kitchen knives, another trip to Asia, a new Mac laptop, a summer in Spain, a new king-size bed in latex, or even a full-blown shopping spree at Loehmann&#8217;s or Nordstrom Rack&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Big question though: how exactly would you define sex?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I let out a knee slappin&#8217; guffaw when I read that a British survey said that 49% of men would go without sex for six months to get a 50-inch plasma TV (Mar. 10, 2008, New Yorker). I wouldn&#8217;t do &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=1019\">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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}