{"id":3044,"date":"2006-04-20T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2017-12-21T09:40:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T15:40:37","slug":"the-male-conundrum-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/20\/the-male-conundrum-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Male Conundrum, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More proof it&#8217;s hard to be a man in the twenty-first century: these conflicting mandates:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lifestyle.msn.com\/men\/articlees.aspx?cp-documentid=413608&#038;GT1=7997\" target=\"_new\">59 Things a Man Should Never Do Past 30<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>6. Hang art with tape.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisoldhouse.com\/toh\/tvprograms\/asktoh\/qaarticle\/0,16588,430642,00.html\" target=\"_new\">Hanging Pictures on Rock-Hard Plaster Walls<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Back then, walls were finished with three coats of plaster \u2014 like the ones in your home \u2014 that dried like rock. Hooks with nails won&#8217;t go in easily. You might consider using hooks that attach with adhesive. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess one can avoid the conflict by only living in homes with drywall after 30 (or mud-walled hovels if that&#8217;s your personality), so it&#8217;s not a true conundrum.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, I know men, real men, don&#8217;t check off items in these sorts of checklists of manly behavior and disobey all sorts of dicta.  So I&#8217;ll just ignore both.<\/p>\n<p>If the nail bends, I&#8217;m just not using a big enough hammer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More proof it&#8217;s hard to be a man in the twenty-first century: these conflicting mandates: 59 Things a Man Should Never Do Past 30: 6. Hang art with tape. Hanging Pictures on Rock-Hard Plaster Walls: Back then, walls were finished with three coats of plaster \u2014 like the ones in your home \u2014 that dried [&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-3044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044","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=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18822,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions\/18822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}