{"id":900,"date":"2008-06-02T18:19:29","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T02:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=900"},"modified":"2008-06-02T18:19:29","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T02:19:29","slug":"a-new-class-of-boy-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/a-new-class-of-boy-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Class of Boy Toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/linda-with-albatross.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-901\" title=\"linda-with-albatross\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/linda-with-albatross-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/linda-with-albatross.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/linda-with-albatross.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/linda-with-albatross.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seeing this photo of Mrs. Hulk Hogan with her new companion, I remembered a conversation with my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/salon-blu-santa-monica\" target=\"_blank\">Andy<\/a>.&nbsp;\u00a0 He&#8217;d been noticing a new trend of single older women dating men who were neither young&nbsp;\u00a0 nor successful. They were men of their own age who didn&#8217;t have jobs or careers or anything much to bring to the table.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t like the sound of this trend.&nbsp;\u00a0 But we needed a new term for this kind of man.&nbsp;\u00a0 I am suggesting &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/poetry.eserver.org\/ancient-mariner.html\" target=\"_blank\">Albatross<\/a>.&#8221;&nbsp;\u00a0 Does anyone like that?&nbsp;\u00a0 One would say, for example, &#8220;Kathy Griffin is involved with an Albatross, now that she split up with Steve Wozniak.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing this photo of Mrs. Hulk Hogan with her new companion, I remembered a conversation with my friend Andy.&nbsp;\u00a0 He&#8217;d been noticing a new trend of single older women dating men who were neither young&nbsp;\u00a0 nor successful. They were men &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/a-new-class-of-boy-toy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[226,214,96],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-ew","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}