{"id":1097,"date":"2009-02-26T03:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2012-07-25T21:20:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T01:20:29","slug":"she-made-me-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/she-made-me-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"She Made Me Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/archives\/features\/proust\" target=\"_blank\">Proust Questionnaire<\/a>, answered by a famous person, is always on the last page of Vanity Fair magazine. As Vanity Fair describes it, &#8220;The questionnaire has its origins in a parlor game popularized (though not devised) by Marcel Proust (1871 &#8211; 1922), the French essayist and novelist, who believed that, in answering these questions, an individual reveals his or her true nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I&#8217;ve read the questionnaire, I&#8217;ve thought, &#8220;I hope no one ever asks me to do this.&#8221; Nevertheless, when gorgeous blogger Nina of Femme Rationale asked me to do the questionnaire, I immediately agreed. I was hypnotized by her shiny, shiny hair and overall beauty. Look.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SaZr66sGi9I\/AAAAAAAAHT0\/uOjNE_k_M4Y\/s1600-h\/dsc0029small2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307047870833527762\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 244px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SaZr66sGi9I\/AAAAAAAAHT0\/uOjNE_k_M4Y\/s320\/dsc0029small2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Look into the hair.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Look DEEP into the hair.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">You will do what Nina tells you to.<br \/>\nYou will also listen to her sisters, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/nina-pinta-and-santa-maria\" target=\"_blank\">Pinta and Santa Maria<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Because I could not resist the charms of Nina, you can read my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.femmerationale.com\/2009\/02\/proust-questionnaire-wendy-brandes.html\" target=\"_blank\">Proust Questionnaire<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.femmerationale.com\/2009\/02\/proust-questionnaire-wendy-brandes.html\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a>. I hope I live up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/features\/2008\/02\/proust_rove200802\" target=\"_blank\">Karl Rove&#8217;s high standards<\/a> for questionnaire answering. I also hope I didn&#8217;t reveal my true nature. Best as I can remember, I threw that shit in a box and left it in my parents&#8217; basement years ago. If it got out, it must be wreaking havoc upon the world. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Proust Questionnaire, answered by a famous person, is always on the last page of Vanity Fair magazine. As Vanity Fair describes it, &#8220;The questionnaire has its origins in a parlor game popularized (though not devised) by Marcel Proust (1871 &#8211; 1922), the French essayist and novelist, who believed that, in answering these questions, an&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/she-made-me-do-it\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-blogs-and-bloggers","category-celebrities","category-magazines","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16442,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/16442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}