{"id":165,"date":"2003-11-15T03:03:39","date_gmt":"2003-11-15T08:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/faux_romance_to_the_highest_bi\/"},"modified":"2003-11-15T03:03:39","modified_gmt":"2003-11-15T08:03:39","slug":"faux_romance_to_the_highest_bi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/faux_romance_to_the_highest_bi\/","title":{"rendered":"Faux Romance to the Highest Bidder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want to spite an ex-girlfriend?  Are you tired of the parental &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.upforanything.net\/archives\/000375.html\">are you seeing anyone yet<\/a>?&#8221;  Are you gay and want people to think otherwise?  Then an eBay imaginary girlfriend may be the answer for you.<br \/>\nFor the right price, you secure the right for a female to send you her picture and a series of weekly romantic letters, typically for one month.  At the end of the alloted time, you &#8220;break up&#8221; with your &#8220;girlfriend&#8221; and go your separate ways.<br \/>\nWhen bidding for an imaginary girlfriend, the old adage <i>caveat emptor<\/i> applies, so read the auction descriptions carefully.  You might be bidding on the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;item=2964329263&#038;category=317\">original imaginary girlfriend<\/a>&#8221; or on one of many <a href=\"http:\/\/search.ebay.com\/search\/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&#038;krd=1&#038;from=R8&#038;MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&#038;ht=1&#038;SortProperty=MetaEndSort&#038;query=imaginary+girlfriend\">cheap knockoffs<\/a> (though some look pretty good).  You might even end up <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;item=2965055967&#038;category=1467\">with a guy<\/a>.  Heaven knows, you certainly don&#8217;t want to end up with a low-grade fake girlfriend.<br \/>\nHappy bidding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/faux_romance_to_the_highest_bi\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Faux Romance to the Highest Bidder\"><p>Do you want to spite an ex-girlfriend? Are you tired of the parental &#8220;are you seeing anyone yet?&#8221; Are you gay and want people to think otherwise? Then an eBay imaginary girlfriend may be the answer for you. For the right price, you secure the right for a female to send you her picture and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}