{"id":7362,"date":"2010-02-03T19:59:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T00:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7362"},"modified":"2010-02-03T19:59:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T00:59:57","slug":"the-battle-of-the-sexes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-battle-of-the-sexes\/","title":{"rendered":"The battle of the sexes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My 8 year old granddaughter informed me this evening that Seth, in school, is in love with her. He just doesn\u2019t know it yet. I knew that Seth had been outmanoeuvred and his fate sealed.<\/p>\n<p>After many years of trying to understand women,\u00a0 an endeavour I abandoned at least 20 years ago, I couldn\u2019t help thinking that this astute summation of my granddaughter\u2019s impending relationship with Seth has set the stage for all her future dealings with men. Indeed, she has captured the Platonic essence of the relationship between the sexes, something that P. G. Wodehouse depicted so brilliantly in his Jeeves and Wooster novels.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube= http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DAY-Ryo_5VA&amp;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 8 year old granddaughter informed me this evening that Seth, in school, is in love with her. He just doesn\u2019t know it yet. I knew that Seth had been outmanoeuvred and his fate sealed. After many years of trying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-battle-of-the-sexes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[2199],"class_list":["post-7362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manners","tag-manners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}