{"id":29305,"date":"2024-12-29T19:47:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T19:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/29\/my-petty-gripe-dont-ask-what-my-plans-are-my-new-years-eve-is-none-of-your-business\/"},"modified":"2024-12-29T19:47:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T19:47:32","slug":"my-petty-gripe-dont-ask-what-my-plans-are-my-new-years-eve-is-none-of-your-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/29\/my-petty-gripe-dont-ask-what-my-plans-are-my-new-years-eve-is-none-of-your-business\/","title":{"rendered":"My petty gripe: don\u2019t ask what my plans are, my New Year\u2019s Eve is none of your business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I\u2019m climbing Mount Everest with Greta Thunberg or holding a vigil for a  pet slug, but I am never answering this question honestly<\/p>\n<p>Some people feel compelled to ride bikes, others mandated to hit the gym. Me? A compulsion to tell myself that I suck to be around.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not going to stand here and say that self-hatred is unique to me. It\u2019s just that it isn\u2019t, until the last week of the year that I don\u2019t feel entirely mawkish for admitting it. When I feel that others share my self-loathing, if only briefly. When a simple question leaves even the most lovable Lotharios spinning dark webs of utter BS.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2024\/dec\/30\/my-petty-gripe-dont-ask-what-my-plans-are-my-new-years-eve-is-none-of-your-business\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I\u2019m climbing Mount Everest with Greta Thunberg or holding a vigil for a pet slug, but I am never answering this question honestly Some people feel compelled to ride bikes, others mandated to hit the gym. Me? A compulsion to tell myself that I suck to be around. I\u2019m not going to stand here &#8230; <a title=\"My petty gripe: don\u2019t ask what my plans are, my New Year\u2019s Eve is none of your business\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/29\/my-petty-gripe-dont-ask-what-my-plans-are-my-new-years-eve-is-none-of-your-business\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about My petty gripe: don\u2019t ask what my plans are, my New Year\u2019s Eve is none of your business\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}