{"id":2432,"date":"2009-09-23T22:50:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T02:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2012-05-25T18:51:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T22:51:29","slug":"i-picked-up-a-much-younger-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/i-picked-up-a-much-younger-man\/","title":{"rendered":"I Picked Up a Much Younger Man&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;And he was heavy lifting! Also kind of wriggly.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2433\" style=\"width: 347px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2433\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2433  \" title=\"wendysebastian11mos\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/wendysebastian11mos.jpg\" alt=\"Nephew Sebastian Berry is nearly a year old!\" width=\"337\" height=\"368\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nephew Sebastian Berry is nearly a year old!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When I see Sebastian&#8217;s name written down, I think of a song called Sebastiane by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sex_Gang_Children\" target=\"_blank\">Sex Gang Children<\/a>. I used to listen to it on full blast in college whenever I was angry. My boyfriend lived across the hall from me in the dorm and if he heard it blaring from my room, he&#8217;d hide. Considering there was 99% chance that he was the person I was angry with, avoidance behavior was a smart move on his part. Probably his only smart move.\u00a0 I&#8217;d tell you about the time a couple of years ago that he got in touch with me on MySpace except that would make me ang&#8230; Uh-oh. Too late.<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UTgDfSF_2Pk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"344\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UTgDfSF_2Pk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: Thank goodness I have the Sex Gang Children song on my iPod. I&#8217;m going to go to the gym and listen to it one or 20 times thanks to the D-list fashion celebrity who asked me for a discount on my (hand-made in New York) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/pro-detail.php?colid=33&amp;collect=true&amp;id=184\" target=\"_blank\">Isabella wolf fang earrings<\/a>. Against my better judgment and the wisdom gained from previous, similar experiences, I offered her 30% off. She declined, saying that, she &#8220;didn&#8217;t expect them to be so pricey.&#8221; I guess she was expecting them for free. Well, that&#8217;s it! From now on, pseudo-celebs &#8212; and real ones &#8212; can pay full retail, plus tax, shipping and handling, and insurance. If they love it, they&#8217;ll pay for it. If they don&#8217;t love it enough to pay, then they don&#8217;t need it. Really, I&#8217;d rather melt these earrings down than have this rude nobody wear them now! <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;And he was heavy lifting! Also kind of wriggly. When I see Sebastian&#8217;s name written down, I think of a song called Sebastiane by the Sex Gang Children. I used to listen to it on full blast in college whenever I was angry. My boyfriend lived across the hall from me in the dorm and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/i-picked-up-a-much-younger-man\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2433,"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":[15,41,138],"tags":[245],"class_list":{"0":"post-2432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gorgeous-family","8":"category-pictures-of-me","9":"category-sebastian-berry","10":"tag-sex-gang-children","11":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432","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=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions\/2436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}