{"id":392,"date":"2003-10-22T23:28:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-22T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=392"},"modified":"2018-08-03T14:11:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T19:11:47","slug":"392","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/22\/392\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Roeper Crosses the Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/roeper\/cst-nws-roep22.html\" target=\"new\">column today<\/a> for the <i>Chicago Sun-Times<\/i>, Richard Roeper discusses the marketing creation &#8220;metrosexual.&#8221;  He&#8217;s spot on when he says nobody but people who are selling something to men who want to be &#8220;metrosexuals&#8221; every really uses the term &#8220;metrosexual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, he goes over the line with his clincher paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Uh, I don&#8217;t think so. And after I finish my <b>Guinness<\/b> tonight, moisturize and then read a few pages of The Devil Wears Prada before I watch &#8220;SportsCenter,&#8221; I&#8217;ll sleep well, knowing this whole metrosexual thing is just media-fueled nonsense. Hell, I don&#8217;t think I even know any metrosexuals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dammit, were I in Chicago, I might feel the need to defend my manliness by having a slap fight with him or downing a Budweiser just to prove I could.  As it were, I shall finish my Guinness, read a chapter of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0375412824\/ref=pd_sbs_b_1\/104-5565108-0900763?v=glance&#038;s=books\" target=\"new\"><i>The Dive from Clausen&#8217;s Pier<\/i><\/a>, and &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Uh oh.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like there might be some awkward conversations at Thanksgiving when I come out of the walk-in closet.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, wait, my <a href=\"http:\/\/angelweave.mu.nu\" target=\"new\">beautiful wife<\/a> dresses me, so I guess I am not a metrosexual after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his column today for the Chicago Sun-Times, Richard Roeper discusses the marketing creation &#8220;metrosexual.&#8221; He&#8217;s spot on when he says nobody but people who are selling something to men who want to be &#8220;metrosexuals&#8221; every really uses the term &#8220;metrosexual.&#8221; However, he goes over the line with his clincher paragraph: Uh, I don&#8217;t think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","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=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21872,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/21872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}