{"id":14745,"date":"2017-11-08T20:15:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T20:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordswarm.net\/dictionary\/lies-or-is-it-something-else.html"},"modified":"2017-11-08T20:15:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T20:15:08","slug":"lies-or-is-it-something-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2017\/11\/08\/lies-or-is-it-something-else.html","title":{"rendered":"Lies? Or is it Something Else?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tIt is interesting to me to notice how often people say things about me and themselves that are not true. While what I guess you could call reminiscing with an ex-girlfriend about our time together many many years ago she said something about how she remembered what a fabulous cook I was, and how creative I was in the kitchen. I have never<\/em> demonstrated any kind of kitchen skills with much of any woman I’ve ever been with. That’s not because I’m chauvinist, it’s because I don’t do those things very well and because DINNER MATTERS. Me attempting to be a chef all of a sudden sounds riskier than just hitting GrubHub.<\/p>\n

But there she was, reminiscing about things that never happened. Did either of us even have a kitchen? I don’t think we did. (UPDATE: April 15 2018: I have no idea what that last sentence means.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In another instance someone asked me if the room was too cold, or too hot. The room seemed room temperature to me, and thus I had no opinion about it. To this she responded that she remembered how I am more accepting of cold temperatures than most people. I don’t remember ever telling her any such thing, nor could I remember ever having reason to communicate one way or the other about whether I had feelings about cold versus warm rooms. But she stated it as fact, that I was some kind of polar bear.<\/p>\n

I guess we all do these things, for good or bad, or for no impact whatsoever. It’s not quite fantasy, is it, for someone to say I was some kind of ace in the kitchen with a woman I respect but who I barely remember being with over a decade ago.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is interesting to me to notice how often people say things about me and themselves that are not true. While what I guess you could call reminiscing with an ex-girlfriend about our time together many many years ago she said something about how she remembered what a fabulous cook I was, and how creative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-3PP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}