{"id":648,"date":"2002-01-05T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-05T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/05\/magazine_whore\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T09:18:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T14:18:33","slug":"magazine_whore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/05\/magazine_whore\/","title":{"rendered":"Magazine Whore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Finally, an explanation<\/strong> for the cryptic, snarky e-mails I\u2019ve been getting from random people I know the last couple of days. I discovered that a personal ad of mine that\u2019s been floating around <a title=\"Shyeah, like any tactic has actually worked\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nerve.com\/personals\">Nerve<\/a> for a while was inexplicably picked to be a featured ad in this week\u2019s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeoutny.com\">Time Out New York<\/a>.<\/i> Guess who forgot all about the little proviso warning that this might happen without warning? I\u2019m no stranger to trolling the Internet personals in hopes of getting lucky, but somehow having this show up in print feels slightly more humiliating. Besides, I can only assume it\u2019s not likely to produce any better results than anything else ever has.<\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"mailto:dateless@ultrasparky.org?subject=Sparky, You Clearly Have No Social Skills Whatsoever\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"At least the photo's OK\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/personal.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, an explanation for the cryptic, snarky e-mails I\u2019ve been getting from random people I know the last couple of days. I discovered that a personal ad of mine that\u2019s been floating around Nerve for a while was inexplicably picked to be a featured ad in this week\u2019s Time Out New York. Guess who forgot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/05\/magazine_whore\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Magazine Whore&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultragay","category-ultrapersonal","category-ultraphotographic","category-ultrapress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71755,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/71755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}