{"id":164,"date":"2013-04-22T11:28:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T18:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/?p=164"},"modified":"2015-04-22T11:29:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T18:29:27","slug":"my-face-is-as-red-as-the-pinterest-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"My face is as red as the pinterest button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m single. \u00a0Therefore I google.<\/p>\n<p>Have I said that before? It sounds very familiar. \u00a0But it&#8217;s still true.<\/p>\n<p>I know that other people who are single, google as well. \u00a0(<i>Yes <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/Google-wants-people-to-stop-googling\/2100-1030_3-6106479.html\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a> I&#8217;m using you as a verb<\/i>.) \u00a0That has recently been confirmed to me from a single man. \u00a0A single man, who in fact googled me.<\/p>\n<p>And he found it. \u00a0The something I&#8217;ve been dreading. \u00a0The something that comes up immediately upon a name search&#8230;.on the first page. And the worst thing about it. \u00a0It&#8217;s a video. \u00a0A video completely\u00a0inappropriate for viewing. \u00a0At least in my minds eye. \u00a0Because it&#8217;s embarrassing. And probably the cause of me still being single&#8230;&#8230;and forced to change my name.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-1m6VRNO8zT4\/UXVwLCAdgSI\/AAAAAAAAD1o\/ajhr-iI5t9c\/s1600\/woman_embarrassed.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-1m6VRNO8zT4\/UXVwLCAdgSI\/AAAAAAAAD1o\/ajhr-iI5t9c\/s1600\/woman_embarrassed.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>And if getting over that embarrassment wasn&#8217;t enough&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I also have Pinterest to thank. <i>Didn&#8217;t I once blog about how Pinterest was an answer to prayer? \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spriggy.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/3-cheers-and-tips-for-pinterest.html\" target=\"_blank\">Maybe a revision is necessary.<\/a><\/i>\u00a0 And this is fresh&#8230;..as in less than 24 hours fresh . \u00a0My cheeks are still cooling off. \u00a0Imagine my horror when I&#8217;m scrolling down Pinterest seeing beautiful design, recipes, quotes, feeling all warm and fuzzy and than BOOM!!! \u00a0A picture of myself. \u00a0What? \u00a0Where? Who? \u00a0<i>Expletive\u00a0inserted here!<\/i> Not only that&#8230;but it&#8217;s the worst picture of all time. \u00a0Even my brother admitted it. \u00a0He thinks its hilarious. \u00a0That&#8217;s the last time I do him a favor. \u00a0My face is as red as the Pinterest icon. \u00a0Maybe the video from google isn&#8217;t that embarrassing after all.<\/p>\n<p>I never thought of myself as a girl who gets around. \u00a0But I&#8217;m rethinking about that in today&#8217;s world.<\/p>\n<p><i>P.S. \u00a0Advice to the single man. \u00a0Keep your stalking to yourself. \u00a0 It just makes you all that less creepy. \u00a0It&#8217;s the unspoken secret within the single world. \u00a0We must save face. \u00a0Google is a tool, not a megaphone!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m single. \u00a0Therefore I google. Have I said that before? It sounds very familiar. \u00a0But it&#8217;s still true. I know that other people who are single, google as well. \u00a0(Yes Google I&#8217;m using you as a verb.) \u00a0That has recently been confirmed to me from a single man. \u00a0A single man, who in fact googled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spriggy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}