{"id":175,"date":"2005-02-11T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-11T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/02\/cupid-carnage\/"},"modified":"2005-02-11T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-11T11:11:00","slug":"cupid-carnage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/02\/cupid-carnage\/","title":{"rendered":"Cupid Carnage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img SRC=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/c_pix\/cupidpic-2.jpg\"><br \/>Many thanks to all who voted in the <i>HB Love Poll<\/i>. <a HREF=\"http:\/\/poll.pollhost.com\/ZGVla2RlZWtzdGVyCTExMDc5Mzc5NzEJRUVFRUVFCTAwODg4OAlWZXJkYW5hCUFzc29ydGVk\/\" target=_blank>Results<\/a> are that he is going to be <b>Honest, but with some potential put-offs removed.<\/b> One of those put-offs to be removed will be the fact that he has taken his instructions from total strangers on the internet. I can&#8217;t quite believe that 4 people want him to pretend to be a magical sexylovebeast from another dimension, but there you are, common sense prevailed.<\/p>\n<p>I have been working my butt off this month trying to stay this side of solvent and sane, continuing my theme of Cupid=Stupid, resisting the annual <a HREF=\"http:\/\/valentineresistance.com\" target=_blank>Valentine&#8217;s Day Nightmare,<\/a> and somehow attempting to examine the reality of love and the myths and expectations that surround it. Next Tuesday my personal quest will be over, left lying tattered in the ruins of empty champagne bottles, bruised egos, wounded hearts and unwanted pregnancies, and this means I shall thankfully be able to move onto my second topic of the year, which I shall reveal in due course, oh my, oh gosh, how the tension is killing me.<\/p>\n<p>I went to Holland Park yesterday, and I took these pictures.<\/p>\n<table WIDTH=400>\n<tr>\n<td><img SRC=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/c_pix\/cupidpic-3.jpg\"><br \/><img SRC=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/c_pix\/cupidpic-4.jpg\"><br \/><img SRC=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/c_pix\/cupidpic-5.jpg\"><br \/><img SRC=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/c_pix\/cupidpic-6.jpg\"><\/td>\n<td><img SRC=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/c_pix\/cupidpic-7.jpg\"><br \/><img SRC=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/c_pix\/cupidpic-8.jpg\"><br \/><img SRC=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/c_pix\/cupidpic-9.jpg\"><br \/><img SRC=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/c_pix\/cupidpic-10.jpg\"><br \/><img SRC=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/c_pix\/cupidpic-11.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><center><br \/><img SRC=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/c_pix\/cupidpic-1.jpg\"><\/center><br \/>Try to keep your food down, you&#8217;ll be doing everyone a favour.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m off to arouse <i>HB<\/i>, inspect the hair cut, and get him a date for Monday. Wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to all who voted in the HB Love Poll. Results are that he is going to be Honest, but with some potential put-offs removed. One of those put-offs to be removed will be the fact that he has taken his instructions from total strangers on the internet. I can&#8217;t quite believe that 4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}