{"id":536,"date":"2005-04-05T09:30:38","date_gmt":"2005-04-05T09:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=536"},"modified":"2005-04-05T09:30:38","modified_gmt":"2005-04-05T09:30:38","slug":"boys_not_men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=536","title":{"rendered":"Boys Not Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must be getting old. I was flipping through the issue of Cleo with this year&#8217;s 50 Most Eligible Bachelors and none of them appealed to me. Why? Just &#8216;cos they were too young. Those were boys not men! If I were several years younger, perhaps more would have appealed to me. Many of them were in their late teens (well ok, 19) to mid-20s. Aiyah, too immature lah. How can call this eligible???<br \/>\nI was supposed to go to the Cleo Bachelor Party on Thursday night with olduvai and slumbering girl until I discovered that I had to go to Bebel Gilberto instead (obviously I didn&#8217;t buy the tickets). I was under the impression that the concert was on Friday night and was all eager to go and see these men make a fool themselves in front of screaming teenagers when I discovered my mistake after a reminder from my friend to appear at the Esplanade on Thursday night. Like dammit. I would have gladly traded Bebel for some bachelors if not for the fact that I had paid $60 for the ticket. So my dreams of a night full of eye-candy were dashed.  Darn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must be getting old. I was flipping through the issue of Cleo with this year&#8217;s 50 Most Eligible Bachelors and none of them appealed to me. Why? Just &#8216;cos they were too young. Those were boys not men! If &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=536\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings-mullings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}