{"id":695,"date":"2007-09-28T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2007\/09\/introvert-hell.html"},"modified":"2007-09-28T09:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T14:58:00","slug":"introvert-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2007\/09\/introvert-hell.html","title":{"rendered":"Introvert Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have discovered Introvert Hell.  The mere idea that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbaltv.com\/video\/10414311\/index.html\">Cuddle Parties<\/a> exist make every introverted bone in my body (at last count, all 206 of them) shudder in eternal terror.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cuddleparty.com\/images\/dccuddle.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer; width: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cuddleparty.com\/images\/dccuddle.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why on Earth would sane people voluntarily attend a Cuddle Party??  At what point did the idea of being in a <a href=\"http:\/\/cuddleparty.com\/about\/faq.cfm\">Puppy Pile<\/a> with complete strangers while dressed in your PJs become an appealing idea??  What if I don&#8217;t want to Moo like a cow?  If, as the creators assert, this meets a basic human need, then I must renounce my humanity.  I&#8217;ll be happy to join my son as a Plutonian refugee here to observe the oddities of human culture.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have discovered Introvert Hell. The mere idea that Cuddle Parties exist make every introverted bone in my body (at<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2007\/09\/introvert-hell.html\" title=\"Read Introvert Hell\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}