{"id":6202,"date":"2021-07-18T09:54:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T13:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=6202"},"modified":"2021-07-18T09:56:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T13:56:02","slug":"dates-with-people-you-dont-know-discussing-books-youve-not-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/thought-about\/dates-with-people-you-dont-know-discussing-books-youve-not-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Dates with people you don&#8217;t know discussing books you&#8217;ve not read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Woke up this morning with remnants of a dream in my head. I present it to you now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>You go on dates. But you don&#8217;t know the other person. On the date, you read books. Discuss books? Books play a big role. So it&#8217;s people you don&#8217;t know discussing books you haven&#8217;t read. That&#8217;s the headline. <br \/><br \/>And there&#8217;s a number. 2 books? 9 dates? Dreams are weird and foggy afterwards. There&#8217;s some specific number if books and dates. And some reason both are important. <br \/><br \/>You are both knowledgeable enough about the book to discuss its merits and the problems it presents. You&#8217;re looking for solutions. The books are the way to those solutions. This is about dating and problem solving. <br \/><br \/>Maybe it&#8217;s a way to determine compatibility between people. Can they solve problems? Can they hold a conversation without shouting or bullying? Are they problems solvers at all? Or do they simply talk about or around the problem in front of them?<br \/><br \/>No idea. It&#8217;s a dream. Dreams are weird and I rarely remember mine. And this one was coherent enough to capture what I have. So here it is. Enjoy? <br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up this morning with remnants of a dream in my head. I present it to you now. You go on dates. But you don&#8217;t know the other person. On the date, you read books. Discuss books? Books play a big role. So it&#8217;s people you don&#8217;t know discussing books you haven&#8217;t read. That&#8217;s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[105],"tags":[65,1438,1437,1205],"class_list":["post-6202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thought-about","tag-books","tag-dating","tag-dream","tag-problem-solving"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6204,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202\/revisions\/6204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}