{"id":452,"date":"2004-09-03T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-03T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/blog\/?p=452"},"modified":"2004-09-03T09:58:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-03T16:58:00","slug":"452","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>If It Isn&#8217;t Bad Enough When Someone Keeps Sticking <\/strong><strong>Things In You&#8230;<\/strong><br \/><strong><\/strong><br \/>I went to my acupuncturist last night sans Michael since he had a &#8220;playdate&#8221; with Jake&#8230; (they went to Subway). Even though Michael usually just sits there and giggles gleefully at me lying on the table in my underwear and getting stuck with pins, it&#8217;s comforting to know that he&#8217;s in the room.<\/p>\n<p>The doctor and I were smalltalking in Chinese, which was somewhat difficult because she has a strong mainland accent and I have a 6th grade vocabulary. She asked me if I had a boyfriend, why not, etc. I said I date when I&#8217;m bored, but for real connections, I&#8217;m looking for someone in particular and I don&#8217;t know who, but I figure I&#8217;ll know when I find that person. But it has to be someone brilliant, gentle, open-minded and kind, and who can keep up with me.<\/p>\n<p>She asked if I like Chinese guys and guys in their 30s, and started telling me about this one guy she knows. She was rattling off in Chinese and I got really lost from my lack of decent vocabulary. But I didn&#8217;t want to be rude because she was speaking so enthusiastically, so I just kept saying, &#8220;Uh huh&#8230;Uh huh&#8230;oh really&#8230;&#8221; But then she asked me, &#8220;What do you think?&#8221; I had no idea what she had been telling me or what she was asking me, so I said, &#8220;Wow.&#8221; And then the conversation ended.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that I didn&#8217;t just give her the redlight to set me up or something. The last time I had an older Chinese woman talk to me about a guy while I smiled and nodded due to lack of comprehension, it was my cousin&#8217;s grandmother, and it turned out that she was pitching reasons why I should date my cousin. (We&#8217;re cousins by marriage. But STILL.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If It Isn&#8217;t Bad Enough When Someone Keeps Sticking Things In You&#8230;I went to my acupuncturist last night sans Michael since he had a &#8220;playdate&#8221; with Jake&#8230; (they went to Subway). Even though Michael usually just sits there and giggles gleefully at me lying on the table in my underwear and getting stuck with pins, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sbl5mn-452","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}