{"id":45793,"date":"2021-06-19T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T05:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=45793"},"modified":"2021-06-18T08:29:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T12:29:04","slug":"qotd-living-in-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/06\/19\/qotd-living-in-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Living in Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Do you know what the funny thing is about mixed signals, OCC? In most instances mixed signals are actually one loud, clear, unmistakable signal: &#8220;I&#8217;m a fucking mess! Run! Run! Run!&#8221; The reason you can&#8217;t decipher the singular signal Alaska Boy is sending you, OCC, is because you&#8217;re suffering from a bad case of Wishful Thinking Syndrome (WTS). This man is damaged goods, OCC, but you&#8217;re so in love with him that you can&#8217;t see him for what he is. <\/p>\n<p>So how do we know he&#8217;s damaged goods? Let&#8217;s count the ways: For starters he&#8217;s a single man who chooses to live in Alaska, which should be renamed the Alaskan National Damaged Goods Refuge.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Savage, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citypages.com\/databank\/26\/1268\/article13112.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Savage Love<\/em><\/a>, 2005-03-23.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know what the funny thing is about mixed signals, OCC? In most instances mixed signals are actually one loud, clear, unmistakable signal: &#8220;I&#8217;m a fucking mess! Run! Run! Run!&#8221; The reason you can&#8217;t decipher the singular signal Alaska Boy is sending you, OCC, is because you&#8217;re suffering from a bad case of Wishful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[66,57,41,13],"tags":[125,196,139],"class_list":["post-45793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-humour","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-alaska","tag-lgbt","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bUB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66629,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45793\/revisions\/66629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}