{"id":17,"date":"2016-04-24T05:28:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T10:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/?p=17"},"modified":"2016-05-18T08:45:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T13:45:59","slug":"what-say-it-isnt-so-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/2016\/04\/24\/what-say-it-isnt-so-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"What? Say it isn&#8217;t so&#8230; (It is.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because I&#8217;ve known all of this for years and years, I told my now-husband, &#8220;If you do get me an engagement ring of any sort, I will not marry you.&#8221; And I meant it. You know what he got me instead? Sand (long story), and I loved the thought behind it more than any other rock.<\/p>\n<p>We will be celebrating our 10-year anniversary in about a month, and I&#8217;m still glad that he listened to me, knowing me well enough that his friends&#8217; admonitions that &#8220;She&#8217;s just saying that! All women want a diamond ring!&#8221; fell on deaf ears. Some women don&#8217;t buy into &#8220;tradition&#8221; simply for tradition&#8217;s sake, especially when the reason behind a so-called tradition is simply a bunch of dollar signs. I guess Adam was wrong about one thing: some men do get out of buying a worthless ring, because their girlfriends know the score. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Engagement Rings Are a Scam - Adam Ruins Everything\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N5kWu1ifBGU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I&#8217;ve known all of this for years and years, I told my now-husband, &#8220;If you do get me an engagement ring of any sort, I will not marry you.&#8221; And I meant it. You know what he got me instead? Sand (long story), and I loved the thought behind it more than any other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-around-the-web","7":"category-lets-discuss","8":"category-things-i-think-about","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}