{"id":1120,"date":"2004-07-04T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-04T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2018-08-13T13:56:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T18:56:37","slug":"1120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/04\/1120\/","title":{"rendered":"Slipping the Surly Bonds of a Target Demographic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The headline on the <i>Maxim<\/i> article is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximonline.com\/world_o_sex\/articles\/article_5827.html\" target=\"_new\">Be Her Boy Toy<\/a> and the lead is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Younger guys and older women: Why should Ashton and Justin have all the fun? Rosie Amodio explains the benefits of Mrs. Robinsons\u2026and how to score one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mrs. Robinsons?  Hardly.  Let&#8217;s count the rings on some of these &#8220;older&#8221; women:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i> Like lots of girls my age, I\u2019ve had a stud puppy. I was <b>26<\/b>, he was 21.<\/i>\n<li><i>\u201cSure, when I dated a <b>30-year-old<\/b>, I tried to act more sophisticated. I dressed well, held doors, bought her flowers, wore cologne,\u201d says Benjamin, 23.<\/i>\n<li><i>The first time Billy and I had sex, I was the boss,\u201d says Jane, <b>29<\/b>. <\/i>\n<li><i>\u201cA guy I dated picked me up in the cheesiest way. He said he\u2019d been watching me all night but was intimidated because I seemed worldly and stylish,\u201d says Luanne, <b>31<\/b>.<\/i><\/ul>\n<p>Holy Hebe, Tulsa, those older women are younger than we are.  I know, I am cherry-picking the ages by highlighting the oldest, but let&#8217;s see what we have in the senior citizen category from the article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>\u201cI dated this 25-year-old who was such a party boy,\u201d says Jane, <b>35<\/b>. <\/i>\n<li><i>\u201cOnce we went out, flirted all night, and didn\u2019t even make it back to my place,\u201d says Karina, <b>36<\/b>.<\/i>\n<li><i>\u201cIt\u2019s a mental rush to date some 23-year-old guy, but it\u2019s weird if it goes on for too long,\u201d says Jenny, <b>36<\/b>.<\/i><\/ul>\n<p>Cripes, Tulsa, they&#8217;re still the same age as Grandpa Doug, who&#8217;s 36.  You ever get the feeling we&#8217;re not exactly the people whom Hugo Boss seeks in his ads anymore?  I mean, I&#8217;m about ready to bust out of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotornot.com\" target=\"_new\">Hot or Not<\/a> 26-32 age group.  I guess we&#8217;re getting old.<\/p>\n<p>Man, I can even remember changing fax machine paper rolls.  Better hike my Dickies up another couple inches.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fark.com\" target=\"_new\">Fark<\/a>.  Those damn kids better get off my lawn!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headline on the Maxim article is Be Her Boy Toy and the lead is: Younger guys and older women: Why should Ashton and Justin have all the fun? Rosie Amodio explains the benefits of Mrs. Robinsons\u2026and how to score one. Mrs. Robinsons? Hardly. Let&#8217;s count the rings on some of these &#8220;older&#8221; women: Like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23113,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/23113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}